Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo
0ops@piefed.zip 13 hours agoOn the flip side, ski goggles will probably fair a lot better against paintballs
Comment on YSK that a good way to clear pepper spray from your eyes is water with baby shampoo
0ops@piefed.zip 13 hours agoOn the flip side, ski goggles will probably fair a lot better against paintballs
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 13 hours ago
That’s why you wear both pool goggles and impact rated goggles over them.
grue@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Or get actual safety goggles instead of something made for a different purpose?
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 12 hours ago
They don’t make safety goggles for gas, those are called gas masks and if you have an extra 600 bucks or so kicking around that is absolutely the best tool for the job. For the rest of us $20 for swim goggles, safety glasses, and an N95 is likely to be “good enough”.
Fondots@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
N95 is probably better than nothing, but for these purposes it’s probably far from good enough
Most pepper sprays and such are oil based, and n-rated respirators are not oil resistant. For that you really want an R-, or even better P-rated mask for oily mists.
Disposable masks suitable for that do exist, but more often you’re going to find reusable cartridge-based ones which will have some additional ratings that probably aren’t relevant to specifically pepper spray but could maybe be relevant for other
White labeled cartridges are suitable for acid cases like chlorine
Black labeled are suitable for organic vapors like from paint thinners and other solvents
Yellow are suitable for both
Green are rated for ammonia and methylamine