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A VERY LONG SHOT BY JP

John Peckham
I am clearing out my late fathers workshop which is proving a huge task.


I found on a shelf today my old Post Office Respirator No. 1A. It is/was a very good dust mask with a pre filter and a cartrige second filter. All packed up in a gold coloured tin, we called a tea caddey as it looks like one. The filter in this one is dated 1991 and we had to change these frequently and bin all stocks older than 1 year.


I would like to continue to use but clearly it is out of date. Inside the tine were the Post Office instructions for use P1 Gen S5160 dated 1977. The instructions say Respirator No. 1A Baxter Pneuseal.


Any idea where I could get a supply of filters?


I note there is one complete unit on Ebay for £40.


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    You might have to get yourself one of those blue jockstraps that Boris keeps his mouth in if you don’t want a hundred pound fine when you go into the village shop.


    Andy B
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    Graces guide suggests that  baxters in the UK was a spin out of the  Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co,  long defunct iIt may be worth looking at the Honeywell/ North/ NK Baxter/  tangled web of merger and take overs, or maybe seeing if the non-bayonet North  cartridges and pre-filter pads now made by Honeywell happen to fit your unit.  The 3m ones are clearly the wrong shape ...


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    If you can't find a proper replacement a photo and a size would enable us to see if we have modern stuff that would fit.


    As an aside: as a beardy who has not trimmed it since lockdown I have read the advice for wearing a face mask and apparently I should ensure that all the beard is in the mask!  I wonder what sort of response I am going to get when wearing a Sundström 1/2 face mask to the shops.
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    I have a safety helmet with visor in my van I have considered wearing a few times, but it would scare the old ladies witless and I cannot see that wearing a visor without a mask is a particularly good idea.
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    Hmm you could wear it to go to the shops!
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    What shape are the filters John, are they circular with a thread, because I have a Vitrex respirator which uses such filters and I could measure if you really want to know?


    Kind regards

    David
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    The filters are a flat circular disk a bit like a slightly large boot polish tin. I have not measured the actual size.


    Thanks for all your efforts and suggestions but I fear the respirator is doomed to be a museum item.


    I have a JSP Force 8 respirator with spare filters for current use which common sense says is better and should be used when PPE is required.
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    kfh:

    As an aside: as a beardy who has not trimmed it since lockdown I have read the advice for wearing a face mask and apparently I should ensure that all the beard is in the mask!  I wonder what sort of response I am going to get when wearing a Sundström 1/2 face mask to the shops.


    I suspect, John, that in this disposable society, you are correct about the museum piece.


    I fear that wearing my own museum piece, an S10 respirator, in a shop would cause quite a stir. Ensuring that I got a seal over my beard in 2003 was difficult, but not impossible. ?


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    Certainly the filter standards have changed, and the original filters, if still available, would be re-badged, re-certified, and probably have a different reference no.
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    Also they no longer fill them with asbestos wool in the way they used to, which is probably a good thing, even though the substitutes are not as fire resistant.

    Rather depends what you want it for - if just a dust mask then you can ignore the charcoal  made from coconuts, and just replace the pads.

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