Sorry, but epoxy paint is much more dangerous than using a 3M respirator for protection.
For this reason, in the United States, CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends use of appropriate personal protective equipment (i.e., a positive pressure-supplied air respirator and clothing) and adequate ventilation when persons work with (or assess the presence of) glycidyl ether in confined spaces. In the United States, acute traumatic occupational deaths are monitored by NIOSH through the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) data file (2). The NTOF data file uses death certificates as the source of information for work-related fatalities resulting from external causes of injury and poisoning (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), rubrics E800-E899). From 1980 through 1985, the NTOF data file included 286 deaths (an average of 48 work-related deaths per year) that involved workers in confined spaces with cause of death directly attributable to asphyxiation, explosion, or drowning.
I know you are talking about CA... I just did not want to let this misstatement slide... epoxy paints can really mess people up... and I have seen it personally.
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NAPA sells a really good 3m respirator, u can use it with epoxy paint and paint with mtk so I'm sure it will protect from ca fumes. Costed me $35CAN for mine they are throw away jobs. I keep mine for about 3 months and then toss. With perfuse usage replace it more often.
There is NOTHING like thin ca that can turn soft balsa into rediculously strong fibered plastic... Example take a 2'' square block of balsa drill it and tap it with 1/4'' tap. Treat it with thin ca to firm up the threads, don't be cheap on the the thin ca, tighten a standard bolt into it and just try to rip it out...
For some things you just can't replace thin ca...