"Hansen" wrote in
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I have been getting horrid headaches after using my sander. Being from
the old school of thought, a respirator was what was used for
painting, solvents etc... Is there a respirator out there that won't
fog my glasses or be an absolute pain in the face to wear? I am not
thrilled about the thought in the first place but it is better the
the pain I get after a couple of hours of sanding. Any thoughts or
comments???

I use a Porter Cable 334 random orbital sander ... pulled off the cheesy
little dust cup that came with the sander and instead used some plumbing
adapters to hook it up to my dust collector.

Sort of like a poor man's Fein sander.

For other jobs in the shop (finishing and plunge routing) I use a half-face
3M respirator with a combination dust/acid/organic cartridge.