Journal #7646 by Alabastor_Twob

Alabastor_Twob

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-27 00:59:24 UTC

Alabastor_Twobformerly TJB

Nobody here speaks Russian do they?
I decided to open the little tin that came with my gas mask, and inside I found several round, clear disks and two small pieces of paper, which seemed to be instructions for use and manufacturer's info. I've heard they're supposed to be antifog lens inserts, or some kind of emergency replacement lens, but I'd prefer to know for sure. I spent some time copying the characters into Google Translate, but that didn't provide much clarification other than the fact that they were manufactured in 1972. I've made an image of the text, as I'm not sure if TWHL works with cyrillic text, and the pieces of paper were too small to get a clear enough photo with my iPod.

The top paragraph is printed on one side of one sheet, the second on the other side, and the two characters at the bottom are stamped on the tin. The second piece of paper only had the number 44 on it.

DiscoStu

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 04:34:42 UTC Comment #54394

From what I can tell (accuracy not guaranteed):

"NP"
Kuioysheva Chemical Works V.V.

Triacetate
Batch 236
6pc. set D-59
Mfg. April 1972

Tightly protects from moisture.
Grab only by the edges.
Apply antifog film on the glass (?)
Used film must be replaced with a new one.
Do not rub when cleaning the "NP" mask.

NP

44 must be the size.

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 09:08:08 UTC Comment #54399

Dont use those old gas masks, the filters are radio active.

Suparsonik

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 11:47:32 UTC Comment #54398

I'm quite sure he made sure that nobody used it before.

Alabastor_Twob

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 16:51:36 UTC Comment #54391

Thanks Stu, that makes sense. I think some of the masks have a rubber gasket around the edges of the lenses, so that's probably to hold these in place.
And they're not radioactive, but they possibly contain asbestos.
I haven't even opened any of the russian filters.

DiscoStu

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 17:22:12 UTC Comment #54395

Google Translate is pretty close to this. It also chokes on the (?) part so I can't confirm its accuracy

Yeah I'm not sure I'd trust those filters, you may be better off using modern filters. If only just in case.

Alabastor_Twob

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 17:38:02 UTC Comment #54392

Weird. When I used it it only translated a few of the words. Enough to get the gist that they are for the lenses, but not what they were actually for.

DiscoStu

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 18:07:01 UTC Comment #54396

Maybe you typed in some wrong letters. "P" and "L" look a lot alike (sort of like pi), and so do "Sh" and "Tsh" (sort of like a W), and also "Y" (looks like "bi") and the untranslatable symbol that looks like a "b".

Otherwise, I don't know. Google learns fast

Alabastor_Twob

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 18:36:33 UTC Comment #54393

Possibly. The pages were quite faded so I had to guess for quite a lot of the characters.

DiscoStu

Commented 12 years ago2012-02-27 19:18:58 UTC Comment #54397

But you got most of them right on the image above. Only õ should be something else (looks more like a 6 but it doesn't display on TWHL when pasted) but it's nowhere near indistinguishable.

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