[AT] full face respirators

[Mark Johnson]

On 10/12/2019 8:36 PM, James Peck wrote:
> These people are spraying crown molding they have installed in a room. 
> It is not tractor painting but they are wearing full face respirators 
> and Tyvek suits. If you are painting a tractor in a 2 car garage, you 
> would want to keep all the existing dust off the tractor, maybe by 
> hanging plastic on the walls. There is a stereotype of old painters 
> having impaired mental faculties due to breathing the paint and 
> absorbing it on the skin.
>
Given the high lead content of old paints (including those used on 
tractors, particularly green ones) this is not much of a stretch to believe.
I'll be the last guy to trivialize poisoning through skin absorption!

Mark J
Columbia MO