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SCBA Masks: Fit It - Wear It - Clean It
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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Permalink Reply by Rusty Mancini on
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Great topic, We issue each of our firefighters their own mask, and I'm a stickler for making sure our guys clean their mask and check for any defects. Something if I might add is, hanging your mask from the elastic straps tend to stretch and wear them out.
Mask are expensive and it's your life in doing your job, take proper care of it and it will take care of you!
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Permalink Reply by Rob Carlson on
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We would always use simple dish soap and warm water, then rinse in cold water. I heard that paper towel can scratch the lens, so you'd want to avoid that. We normally let ours air dry. We have the Survivair sets. They are decent... but my preference is the MSA. Like the MSA, with Survivair sets, there is no cross contamination between the facepiece and the regulator, which is good. We would also use respirator wipes from a safety supply store to disinfect the facepiece.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Buck on
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we use alcohol pads to clean ours
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Permalink Reply by Anita King on
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We have Scotts. We use warm water and soap to clean them.. I like to let mine air dry.
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and also some times use warm water and soap
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Permalink Reply by Ron King (Fire Chief) on
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Thats so true Anita, The Virginia Dept of Fire Programs states. To clean with warm water and soap. And air dry.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Stevens on
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Alcohol wipes can dry out the rubber on the facepiece and cause it to deteriorate.
We use a cleanser mixed with water, just dip the masks into the solution in a 5 gallon pail and let them air dry. This was the procedure recommended by the company we bought the masks through. I can find out more about the cleanser if anyone is interested.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Johnson on
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I agree with the alcohol pads we clean them the same way but when they are dry put one drop of dawn dish soap on the outside of the lense.Rub it with a clean cloth until it is completly dry. This will garentee that your mask will not fog up. WORKS GREAT.
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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on
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We've always used dish soap and warm water, then carefully blow out with compressed air. Careful not to damage the one-way valves with the air, though.
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Permalink Reply by matt foro on
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Well I have seen alot of you use similar methods. My Dept uses the Scott AV3000 Masks and also use the scott cleaner. The advantage of the scott cleaner is a cleaner and disinfectant. I fully go thru each pack monthly and do a full strip down and clean the frame, harness, straps. I start with a Warm water soap mix then air dry and then use the Scott solution. All Masks are in a mask bag attached to the packs on the trucks. When we are out of the scott solution I use to ask the ambulance service for some of the stuff they use to for disenfect but have since bought some from moore medical and is the same stuff used by Scott in there solution for the masks.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Meadows on
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We clean our masks after each use with warm soap and water. We use Drager and we aren't issued our own masks so it's important that they are cleaned after each use because you don't want to have the last guys face gunk on your face.
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