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Importance of Using a Respirator to Paint a Car

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Summary: It's important to use a respirator when painting your car with a spray gun because of the toxic paint fumes in the air; ; learn why from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

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Importance of Using a Respirator to Paint a Car

Hi, I'm Doug I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for your today on Expert Village. Always make choices that are always good for your body. Paint is dangerous. It is bad for you for 2 reasons. It has chunks of paint in it, right there is the solids that stay on the car when you are done painting and there is the vehicle that you use to get the paint on the car. The solvents, plastics, stuff like that. These don't, don't use these with paint every this is only good for dust. These you can use for paint that is what they are exactly designed for they are pretty good deal. But they are negative pressure when you breath in your sucking through these filters you can also suck paints around the outside. This guide is the ultimate this helmet goes over Dan's head and it is a positive thing. It supplied with compress air from our compressor through a filter and it forces air into this mask and helmet area. So there is not chance of getting any paint breathing in it. If you are doing small work, you can go ahead and use the repositories that I have showed you for big jobs. But if you are a professional painter this is the way to go.

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