Thanks to you Jeff, my eyes had been opened after our conversation on this topic a while back with your past experience. I wear a mask out of habit and rely strictly on venting/air flow.

It's not like I was directly over the fumes but just the odor made me ill, so I have a clean air flow now. I don't even use CA like I used to but try to incorporate more epoxies in my work... still venting as that smell is awful too. After my health issues the past couple years things have changed, I have changed and I used to enjoy painting and heavy assembly work with plastics and resin.

Out of the blue during a routine examine I had an initial diagnosis of COPD by an x-ray technician/radiologists who really misread the film, but after a battery of tests by a Pulmonologist it was concluded I had an unusual large capacity of lung function (mainly what most swimmers and runners have) and that I had no issues but was just now hypersensitive to odors.

Even the odor of dried/cured resin I can smell now.




Jeff