hey guys adam savage here in my cave with a tool tip yeah i think you could call this a tool tip
this is a painting respirator i wear this when i'm painting or using noxious chemicals like
epoxy resins and things like that and i do this to protect my lungs uh i recognize some
of you watching um will have distinct memories of me forgetting or ignoring the need for one of
this while painting something in this shop and to that i say i am just a human like any others and
sometimes i follow all the rules of my existence and sometimes i don't but in general uh this is
a key piece of shop equipment i have multiple different kinds of respirators for different
kinds of chemicals i store them in different ways depending on their needs whether they're
an activated or passive particulate filter but i'm bringing this up simply to talk about masks
because given uh recent events it really looks like masks are going to be a part of our lives
for the near foreseeable future at the very least um i'm not going to be debating the efficacy of
wearing masks because while while some people may think there is a debate on the efficacy
of wearing masks the fact is that nobody who is gathering or looking at the data of mask wearing
has any doubt about the efficacy um i wear this specific kind of mask uh and i've been getting
a lot of questions about it so i thought i would talk about it this is a mask made by
graf lance that's g-r-a-f-l-a-n-t-z link is in the comments below they make these beautiful
my first intersection with graphallons and by the way they haven't paid for this they
don't know that i'm doing this this isn't an endorsement it's just a product i really like
they make these beautiful thick felt coasters at a five millimeter felt um and their coasters made
me fall in love with five millimeter felt as a building material i ended up using it as the cover
for my side tables last christmas uh and that was all inspired by grafflance they also make bags
and as uh the owner of a bag making company i to say they make some of the most beautiful
bags i've ever seen their colors are incredible and the marigold of this beautiful sort of ochre
gold mask is indicative of how great their color schema are um so i can't recommend them enough
their masks aren't cheap i think these are 22 bucks on amazon um i've got a couple dozen now
i've been you know using over the years they wash well most importantly for me as a glasses
wearer they have a metal tab in the nose and that is absolutely critical for me anybody who
wears glasses knows that your glass is fogging up from the mask is a particular level of hell and
i would like to discuss how i keep my glasses from fogging the way i adjust my nose bridge
for my specific nose is i first make the bend that covers the top right like i consider the very tip
of the top of my nose where the mask meets is like this half circle so i get that half circle right
then there is this plane that moves down at this curve like this and i accommodate for it until i
can feel it and then i do what's called preloading which is i bring my metal uh nose bridge
in a little bit that means i'm creating a little bit of pressure on it against my nose so that
when i put on my glasses it creates a seal that keeps my breath from fogging my glasses
i just want to take it aside to show you here preloading is an engineering term
for when something doesn't perfectly conform with where it has to match it's actually been
made slightly smaller in some dimension that that and smalling is called preloading because you're
creating a little bit of pressure there and that's what i'm doing with the nose bridge when i bend it
in just a little bit before applying it um i also being a glasses where frequently have to take my
mask off by slipping a finger underneath this and doing that if i don't do that i will frequently
pull off my glasses with my mask yeah it can be a real freaking nightmare lots of different
people have lots of different kinds of aluminum soft aluminum metals in their nose bridges again
i really like the graflance one i have only broken one of their nose bridges in the time i've had a
bunch of their masks um they also have a space for extra filters inside when i fly i put an n95 in
there as well here is the reason i particular the main reason i like their masks for all the things
i've just discussed my main reason that i really love their masks is that when they're on my face
i can feel them making a seal on my whole face and that's a very stabilizing feeling
frankly with some of the disposables the disposable surgical masks uh
i absolutely can't feel that it's making a proper seal
one other thing that i would love to acknowledge for those of us who wear glasses it is uh always
an issue of like the glasses wrapping around the the sorry of the mask wrapping around the
temple of your glasses and making it impossible it gets even worse when you have a hearing aid
because it also uh i don't know how many of you lost airpods over covid but i have two friends
that have their air pots popped out of their ears by masks i don't really have a solution
to that i'm just complaining in a gentle fashion um graflon's masks these are my favorite um this
was my semi-tooltip semi-psa about mask wearing as always with anything that i recommend your results
may vary as your face might be a different shape than mine but i find these very versatile thanks
you guys for joining me for this tooltip psa stay healthy and i'll see you i'll see you later