Unless someone has a source for a LARGE M40 in good shape or new, it appears to be the only one readily available in large. I would still REALLY appreciate any feedback anyone has on the M45. As is the SGE civilian mask I also linked. The reason I asked about the M45 is because I have a big melon and it is available in large. This lets me try both and have a few spares. In true ARFCOM fashion, I'm now leaning toward getting either the 3M mask you suggested (or the SGE one), AND a military style one as well. I do like the idea of not spending $500 on it too, but price is less of an issue for me than performance is. As I said, I'm looking for something I'd be able to fight with if I needed to, and while there are some civilian ones with side mounted filters, in my total lack of experience with gas masks, I assumed that a mask used by the military would have all this figured out for me. I'm not dead set on a military mask, but I do lean toward them. If you're dead set on a "military" mask, I'd suggest getting a brand new production 3m M40 instead of taking a chance with anything surplus. If you're not going to consider something outside of military issue/military surplus, just say so. Why would you even want those at that price? The visibility on those eyepieces probably is the suck. What about the M45? Does anyone have any experience with them? They seem very similar to the M40? you really should do your homework if you are going to call someone out when you have no clue of there background.
which, by the way, is why it is called N95, get it? as for the CDC, do you really think in your every day travels that you will run into the "bugs" they deal with? if you do then you should ease up on the tin foil. a N95 mask will protect you against 95% of anything that is going to kill you. I take it you have never seen any of my post and dont know what i do for a living. All a N95 mask does is keep an infected wearer from spreading as much aerosolized infectious material.ĭon't believe me? Ask the CDC what their PPE policies are for working with highly infectious lethal pathogens. I don't know who told you that a N95 mash was enough to protect you from a Bio threat, especially a viral one, but they are dead wrong. they are cheap and available at most home supply stores. as for any "pandemic" threat, a standard N95 mask is more than enough. IDK why people are so obsessed with used or left over. There are many other good brands though.įor a full face mask my hands down favorite is the Scott ProMask40. The brands I have had the best results with are Scott Safety (formerly Kemira) and MSA. I would imagine you would want some multigas combination cartridges though to deal with any chemical hazards that might arise. Also for a nuclear hazard, you would probably be disposing of a lot of filters as you wouldn't want to bring the radioactive material in to your shelter location in the filters. Particulate only filters typically don't have a fixed shelf life or service life in use, and are much lower restriction so are easier to breathe through. Pandemic or nuclear protection are both particulate hazards, so would recommend a supply of P100/HEPA type particulate only filters. Get a quality industrial respirator and good quality filters for it. Strong advice is to forget entirely the military masks, disabuse yourself of whatever mystique or mythology you might have.