Homemade gas mask

Good idea?

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• With a lot of experience in MOP and my time as an emergency responder, the only thing this will do for you is reduce the competition the rest of us will face. The act of inhaling will create a lower pressure in the area around your face, the sponge will be more resistant to airflow than the huge gaps surrounding your head. It will suck the fumes, gases or particulates right in.
• one could wet a bandanna or old t shirt with vinegar or lemon juice and use that to help filter out breathing air. To improvise a gas mask you need to make a char coal/cotton filter, but a bottle like that (or a soda bottle) would work. Don’t need to be an expert, just need the desire to learn.
• lame, and what gas is that out there that he’s wandering around in in his shirt sleeves that has left the trees defoliated and the sky brown that the cellulose sponge is somehow keeping him healthy in?
• about the only thing it would help with is pepper spray and farts
• Assume the jug is a milk jug (A),fill the sponge with water(B),secure to head with expanding foam (the type that doesnt harden,to keep a flexible seal) (C),know where your closest retailer of paint respirators or better yet military surplus gas masks are located (D),take a brick (E)
• Took me a while to figure out just what the ‘idea’ was. Does it work? I’d have to be an expert to know. Seems like a cool idea but not sure breathing through a bleach-soaked sponge would really filter out the bad stuff.
• Oh boy. Joyce, do you really think you’re supposed to soak the sponge in bleach?
• This is dumb. You need a real gas mask with a real filter designed to filter specific chemical compounds.
• I have to agree with Steven Pierce. This is not a good option. If you are looking for defense against particulates like smoke, a simple dust mask will help. In the event of smoke and fire, oxygen is consumed by fire and no mask will manufacture O2. In the event of a chemical spill/hazmat situation breathing apparatus is the ONLY way to go. The water-soaking in meaningless.
• If you are worried about gases go to your surplus store and get a real mask. Don’t try this.
• This is stupid
• if you pee on the spone its might works because the ammonia in urine will neutralize some war gases like chlorine, it is ineffective on others, such as Mustard gas
• If the sponge is soaked with bleach it will be liberating chlorine into the air you breath which is bad for you. The bleach may also react with whatever is threatening you to make something worse!

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