Howard Law

What do you do

  • Hover

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Wipe and sit

    Votes: 10 41.7%
  • Birdnest

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • eww, i'm to uppidy to use a public tiolet

    Votes: 6 25.0%

  • Total voters
    24

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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I've had enough respirator training through MSHA and companies like BASF to tell you with confidence that these masks don't do crap. Well, they keep your fingers out of your nose and mouth, but that's it.

I feel differently, having used them in fuel tanks on the flightline. They helped me out a bunch.
 

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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You used paper or cloth masks on the flightline?

Well he mentioned respirators. We had rubber respirators with replaceable paper filters but they worked well enough to keep me from breathing in the fumes.

If I didn't wear the respirator, I'd be burping fuel all day and that night I'd wake up with terrible shakes and shivers followed by sweating and burning up. The respirator would keep that from happening to me, so I always wore one.
 

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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You used paper or cloth masks on the flightline?

Right now they're required to wear face coverings just like I am. I have no idea how you're supposed to do depot-level maintenance on an airframe while wearing a mask, safety glasses and earplugs...Glad to have that behind me although I actually do miss the work and camaraderie
 

Rabbit2047

NOT Joe Exotic, Ted Nugent, or Joe Dirt
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Right now they're required to wear face coverings just like I am. I have no idea how you're supposed to do depot-level maintenance on an airframe while wearing a mask, safety glasses and earplugs...Glad to have that behind me although I actually do miss the work and camaraderie
I think his point, as well as mine, and illustrated by your anecdote, is that respirators work. Masks don't
 

Fast306stang

Black Bear under anesthesia
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I was checking out this new ZL1 Camaro in the parking lot and a guy drives by in his truck, says to me, "Don't look at it, you'll want to trade yours in!"

I said, "Nah, I can't go to Chevy yet!"

I noticed he's driving a Silverado when he drove away.

I have no idea who he was, I didn't recognize him lmao
 

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Sasquatch
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I was checking out this new ZL1 Camaro in the parking lot and a guy drives by in his truck, says to me, "Don't look at it, you'll want to trade yours in!"

I said, "Nah, I can't go to Chevy yet!"

I noticed he's driving a Silverado when he drove away.

I have no idea who he was, I didn't recognize him lmao
Can you see out the windows?