is respirator have much effect?

[Wookie]

hey, i have couple of grams CPU gold pins, this is my 1st time to recovery it. i already have rubber glove, google, and safety shirt (i don't know what it's called), and i planned to buy some respirator, my question is, is respirator do much for acid fumes like Hydrogen chloride, brown NO2 gas, etc? i have budget around $25-30 bucks for respirator, if respirator do much effect, what type of respirator should i buy? thanks,

 

[nickvc]

Simple respirators will not handle noxx for a start so dont waste your money on them, if you have a remote air feed direct into the mask it should protect you but they are cumbersome. The best thing is a decent fume hood and there are many ideas here on the forum to build your own fairly cheaply depending on the volume of material your processing. Whatever you do don't process indoors without a fume hood and a scrubber to handle the toxic fumes if near to other or your own residence.

 

[Wookie]

Simple respirators will not handle noxx for a start so dont waste your money on them, if you have a remote air feed direct into the mask it should protect you but they are cumbersome. The best thing is a decent fume hood and there are many ideas here on the forum to build your own fairly cheaply depending on the volume of material your processing. Whatever you do don't process indoors without a fume hood and a scrubber to handle the toxic fumes if near to other or your own residence.

what is scrubber to handle toxic fumes means? is that some kind of tools?

 

[rickbb]

Please read up some more, (a lot more), you can get yourself or others killed with too little knowledge of the various processes involved.

No cheap, cartridge type respirator will filter out acid fumes, none. You'd know this if you had read some books or the various forum posts here.

And a 2 grams of pins is too little to bother with, the recovered gold will be smaller than the head of a pin, if that big. Wait until you have a few hundred grams of pins, and way more knowledge of what you're doing before you start anything.

 

[butcher]

Sometimes google seach provide help in answering your question:

http://www.google.com/#gs_rn=23&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=8&gs_id=18&xhr=t&q=fume+scrubber&es_nrs=true&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=fume+scr&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.49967636,d.cGE&fp=b2490544d1ad2fdd

 

[Harold_V]

Simple respirators will not handle noxx for a start so dont waste your money on them, if you have a remote air feed direct into the mask it should protect you but they are cumbersome. The best thing is a decent fume hood and there are many ideas here on the forum to build your own fairly cheaply depending on the volume of material your processing. Whatever you do don't process indoors without a fume hood and a scrubber to handle the toxic fumes if near to other or your own residence.

what is scrubber to handle toxic fumes means? is that some kind of tools?

One of the ongoing problems we have on this board is folks who seem to think all they have to do is ask questions, and others will provide their education. That isn't how things work here, and many get their *** in a wringer because they persist. Trust me---that's not where you want to be--as the end result is usually the reader getting banned, so asking questions is no longer an option. What you really want to do is keep the board at your disposal for those anomalies that arise, where you need input from those with greater experience. That's really what we're here for.

In clear, concise English.

If you hope to learn to recover and refine precious metals on this board, you are expected to read----then read again, -----and again. Read Hoke's book, and read posts pertaining to the subject matter of your choosing. Search the forum---it's all been discussed time and again. Keep doing that until you don't have to ask questions like you just did. Without the basic understanding that I'm trying to have you understand that you NEED to have, you'll keep asking questions that shouldn't be asked (not because they're not important---but because you are expected to learn these things so you can have a meaningful discussion with the readers).

I'm alluding to a given character type here. The individual with an entitlement attitude. So you better understand, we stand for refiners helping refiners. We have no obligation to provide information of any nature to anyone---but we have elected to help those who have enough of a conviction to help themselves. If we discover a reader is unwilling, or refuses to follow sound advice that is tendered, the recipient generally does not enjoy a good and long stay here.

In conclusion---start reading. Read Hoke's book until you understand what she teaches. If you do not, your questions will reflect that fact, resulting in readers turning their backs on you. I'm sure you'll find that most of us expect you to pay dues, just as we have, in gaining our knowledge. You do that by studying.

Harold