Anybody here use the Resp-O-Rator?

[Daniel Koster]

Anybody have any experience with the Resp-O-Rator?

I have a beard and saw this option and was wondering about what it's like to actually use it in the shop.

Seems like a cool idea (looks dorky, but who cares)...I just don't know if the filter will be good enough and if it will be hard to keep the thing in your mouth....or if I'll end up biting down on the mouthpiece (I do sometimes catch myself clenching my jaw when doing heavy grinidng).

Any thoughts?

Dan

 

[JTknives]

Anybody have any experience with the Resp-O-Rator?

I have a beard and saw this option and was wondering about what it's like to actually use it in the shop.

Seems like a cool idea (looks dorky, but who cares)...I just don't know if the filter will be good enough and if it will be hard to keep the thing in your mouth....or if I'll end up biting down on the mouthpiece (I do sometimes catch myself clenching my jaw when doing heavy grinidng).

Any thoughts?

Dan

it will look like your going scuba diving

 

[Dan Pierson]

I use one constantly in the shop. Very comfortable for me and the filters are very fine particulate filters.
They're not chemical filters, though you are drawing all the air in from behind you. On the other hand,
I'm working with steel and wood, not micarta so chemical filters are probably less necessary.

Pros: light, comfortable, cheap

Cons: must breath through your mouth (no problem to me, but folks at Ashokan
considered this a big problem), tends to drool a bit, plastic will fatigue and break
eventually (see cheap), make sure that the side tubes don't come undone (just
pressure fit and you have to take one apart to put the thing on; not a big problem
just easy not to notice that you didn't put it together tightly), particulate only.

I had one of the powered helmet respirators before this but the resp-o-rator is so
much more comfortable that I really wouldn't want to go back.