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HazCat
May 4, 2009

Make sure you know what your filter cartridge protects against and what it doesn't. They're colour coded and I'm fairly sure magenta is only particulates (so fine dust from wood and plastic sanding for example), but not fumes (so you'll probably want different filters if you're doing painting or varnishing, as an example).

Also worth knowing that if you get the ones with carbon in them, those start degrading as soon as they are taken out of the plastic (as the carbon starts absorbing all kinds of bullshit in regular air), and so they'll become 'spent' pretty quickly. Particulate filters don't expire the same way, they work until they physically clog, so you'll know when you need to replace them because they'll get harder and harder to draw air through.

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