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How to Make Your Tyvek Suit Even Safer
Tyvek suits from DuPont provide an amazing degree of protection from the elements of your work site. Here are some tips to make them work even better for you. Whether you're using your
Tyvek suits for basic clean-up trying to keep the dirt and other non-hazardous materials such as oil, paint, and sewage away from your clothes and skin, or you have some really serious particulate matter about such as pesticides and radioactive particles, the goal is to keep it away from you.
Tyvek has
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Jul 31st 2013
Lead Tests for the Home: Do They Work?
Just about everyone understands that physical contact with lead is bad for you. It's a serious health hazard for adults and it's an even more serious hazard for children. It can cause nerve problems, slowed growth, hearing problems, and outright brain damage for your children. For you, it can cause muscle and joint pain, hypertension, or reproductive problems. You really don't want your home contaminated with lead.
Back in the day, people didn't know that lead was so dangerous, so they
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Aug 1st 2012
Lead Fume Respirator: Respirator Protection from Lead and Paint Fumes
The variety of jobs and tasks our customers set out to do continually amazes me. Here is a query from a recent customer about his task:
In an upcoming job I will be melting lead and spraying acrylic and lacquer based paints. What mask and filters do you recommend to protect me from the fumes associated with these tasks? How does sizing on the masks work?
For the lead fumes I suggest using a P100 (HEPA) filter such as the
3M 2091 Particulate Filter or the 3M 7093 P100 HEPA filte
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Jun 10th 2011