We Test Chinese and High End Gas Masks with TEAR GAS so you don't have to. 

Garandthumb: *Successfully seals mask with facial hair* Senior NCOs: ಠ_ಠ

Happy Father’s Day dad

Dude, this might be the best dad advice anybody has ever given on this channel. This one is of lifelong importance even if you're _not_ a dad. Everybody should do this.

Charlie is seriously one of the funniest people I know of. I literally laugh out loud so much at these videos with his comments

I've spent much of my professional life in full face respirators. When you're doing the suck test hold the suction for a few seconds don't breathe out rite away. You'll find slower leaks that way. Also petroleum jelly on the sealing surface can help quite a bit with a beard in an emergency.

"When you're at a mostly peaceful protest and you just gotta get rid of your local Burger King." Comedy gold.

Been in the Chemical corps my whole career. I did 10min on a bet with no mask in a SPICY chamber with some PT in the mix. Definitely controlled breathing and just being used to CS exposure helps. But it tore my lungs up the next couple days. We have the new 53’s (one filter, 40mm NATO standard) but I prefer the M50’s. Dual filters, easier to strip and clean and much cheaper. Unless you’re in a NATO apocalypse you should be fine. Put one on and go do some chores, go for a jog, whatever. Just get used to using one. I have spent DAYS in MOPP 2-4 and wearing a mask constantly. If you are a rich boi, invest in a PAPR system. Pro Tip: Your filters won’t protect you from chloramines.

Huge props to the camera man for always keeping a steady shot even going through the tear gas, what a real trooper!

As a painter I can fully attest to the value of a good respirator.

Literally 30 seconds in and I'm in tears 😂😂😂 This channel is becoming Top Gear with guns and I'm 100% here for it.

Integrating actual information and comedy is a good format. Keep up the videos.

Mildly informative, Massively entertaining!

Note on the Mira mask since I’m a dealer and have gotten to test fitment with multiple helmets. They do not work well with ACH geometry helmets. They work fine with the opscore super high cuts. The Avon masks work great with all helmets but does cost way more.

As a former CBRN guru I'm qualified to confirm that @2:50 Charlie's glasses doffing technique is 100% correctly executed.

Real world science! Cheers Lads! Glad to see chuckles back on site!

Dude. Your sound bomb at 0:29 blew up my sound bar. It is toast now.

Charlie was on fire at the beginning. The Chinese mask dig was epic. Love this channel

I remember going through the gas chamber in basic training.. You go into a tent with CS pellets burning in a can on a table initially with your mask on. The Drills would talk for a few minutes and then we were ordered to take our masks off... Holy crap.. A couple minutes reciting a few general orders was an eternity but you built extreme confidence in the function of that mask.

Great Video! I just bought a Mira a couple weeks ago. And great Dad Advice!! 👍🏻👍🏻

The Chinese, Charlie burn montage was top drawer. Classic. 👌🏼

Finally, testing the limits of the *Geneva Suggestion* comes full circle

You know it's going to be a great episode when Charlie starts off spitting fire!

Mike RU-vid’s doing the thing again, I haven’t been notified about a single upload for like the last 2 months so now I have to binge all these great videos

6:48 “Yeah Mine works pretty good” (takes mask off and walks into gas) haha fantastic!!

My dad was a industrial hygienist so he had gas mask and needed to test them often. He had this testing kit that would blow tear gas out a glass tube so you can test the seal and filter of your gas mask. You would break the end off thee tube and attach a rubber ball thing like on a clown horn. You would then squeeze the ball and tear gas comes blowing out the tube. As a kid it was fun getting my hands on it with my friends. We for sure learned how much it sucks to breath it in and get the gas in your eyes. I would stand in my shed wearing a gas mask and then pump as much tear gas into the sealed shed as possible. Buddies would try and stay in the shed as long last one wins. It was good times, till my buddie went home with his face swollen to hell, eyes swollon shut that my dad got a very angry call from his mom and shut it down real quick.

A thing to add. When you are in a situation where you NEED to use these mask, you should exhale before taking a breath in. The purpose is to get rid of any harmful substance still left inside your mask. This is usually done before you do your suction test.

I really appreciate this as I’ve been considering options.

Mira mask, like the ones they're wearing around @7:00 mark, the CM M8 ($325) and CM 7M ($275) w/o filters. Mira does have a great selection of filters and accessories for their mask! Their CM M6 is $264 and is very similar to the Cm M8 but have seen reviews saying the CM M8 is perfecting the Cm M6 Design and offers a water delivery system accessory so you can drink when in use. Was just researching these today and stumble over this vid a few moments ago. Talk about timing, lol. So far,.. nothing seems to be as good as the Mira mask. Still researching but,.. think this vid just helped make my choices for 3. nice one guys!

Charlie is a national treasure and must be protected at all times.

Great point that CS gas tends to spread. I spent a year living on an Army base and they used to rent out sections of the base to the local PD for training purposes. One night we got a heads up”Hey guys, the PD is doing riot training tonight and they’re gonna be popping off tear gas, so you might wanna close your windows”. Well, the wind shifted unexpectedly and all the gas got blown into our barracks. I woke up the next morning and my room had a funny chemical smell to it.🤦🏼‍♂️

Bought a Mira safety mask. Glad it was tested hear....it's a good product, I'm confident with it. Just wanna note, the filter is rated for oxygen levels as low to 17%....anything under or real heavy work requires a breathing apparatus

I wanna see a reality show of you guys just doing regular shit with Charlie around.

When I worked in corrections, we'd have to occasionally use an OC phantom fogger for cell extractions, and compared to the standard OC/CS grenades we usually used the size of the particles were vastly different. The phantom particles were way smaller and had a higher concentration of PPB. That would bypass our gasmasks constantly leading us to have to extract a guy while also hacking up our lungs ourselves. After this happened 9 times, they finally got us better filters so we wouldnt be filling our masks with snot and tears anymore.

Sundstrom masks work great, we use half and full face respirators for chemical treatments. Stackable filters & parts easy to come by, but its worth investing if your going into an area where needed

Charlie is the man. Makes me laugh out loud. My roomate upstairs must think I'm nuts

Always love seeing Charlie throwing Mike off his game 😂

This is a good opportunity to talk about people’s need to wear basic masks while doing things like cutting/grinding wood, metal, plastic, etc. Obviously you don’t need a gas mask but protect your lungs people!!

Charles makes me laugh 😂. Love it when you all are together in the video

9:47 'It's something you gotta train with' Airsoft and paintball players: *I trained my whole life for this*

charlie always makes my sunday, keep up the great work

Mira Safety is basically a reseller. Things like their DOT ABEK filters are essentially rebranded filters that originally come from Russia and some of their masks also come from Russia and other places.

MSA is what we use for work (commercial/ industrial sheet metal install and demo)around certain toxic chemicals. And its all about the filter, concentration, and exposure over time. I personally only use 3M filters for my msa full face and half mask for my home projects.thats one of those thing that you get what you pay for.

Thanks guys invaluable information

I swear, Charles gets more based every episode 😂 💯

0:25 I wasn't ready for that montage. I had to replay it several times. It was amazing.

honestly the best gas mask you can still get for pretty cheap is the polish MP-5 you can even find them in some surplus stores go for less than a 80$ throw in a brand new filter in it and you're all set, great visibility, comfortable and affordable.

My buddy drove around base with a gas mask because he thought his car had an exhaust leak. MPs were not amused and pulled him over and told him to stop. This video brought a rush of laughter as I reminded of this

"I think it was the Chinese who were responsible for us all wearing masks in the first place." Pure fucking gold!

that was actually some great dad advice on the fly! Learn to cook, life's too short to eat crappy food. gave me some inspiration there.

35 SECONDS... that's all I needed for today! :P Thanks Charlie

Would love a part 2 on surplus store specials like the M10, GP5 and other eastern block surplus masks. Of course, only the ones that don't have spicy fibers in their filters.

apart from the mentioned problems gt mentioned, the most important aspects is that, when you are purchasing for those items, they are more likely to be manufactured in line with cosplay category rather than military/militia grade requirements, despite any advertisement they may put up on the sales page/pictures. and only if you know your way around, you can get quality items with cheap deals, just like ebay.

I have a Avon m50 issued to me via corrections and I love it it has never failed me.

I remember when I was in the (Serbian) army, they issued us M2 gas masks. Then we had exercises where those dudes threw tons of tear gas on us. They threw some small canisters a lot like those you used in the video, but they also had some big ones, like a beer keg... All field was full of tear gas. My mask didn't fit 100% so I did feel a slight smell of the gas, but nothing more than that, literally 0 problems. However, dumb as I am, I wanted to feel what's it like to inhale tear gas, so I briefly removed my mask... Let's just say that isn't an experience I would recommend... I do remember that particular mask created a lot of issues if you were running with it; you simply wouldn't get enough air and felt as if suffocating, but removing it in a cloud of tear gas was also not a great idea, as previously established...

Would love to see a comparison of gas masks vs full face respirators from 3M.

The cameramen is immune to teargas

I really like the FM 54s but they are close to a thousand bucks. Mira Safety is awesome too, and affordable for certain people.

0:23 We really need an entire video of all of Charlie’s best moments

My Dad was a hazmat driver for years and needed to keep a gas mask at hand for obvious reasons - was bucking the company on having a beard and his solution for sealing a mask around facial hair was he tossed a small thing of petroleum jelly inside the mask itself. In a rapid emergency he could just cinch the mask on tight, if he had a moment to do so he would just slather on the petroleum jelly.

Hell yea one last Garand Thumb video before I ship to basic training LETS GOOOO!!!

I like how Charlie just stood there with the mask and his glasses pushed down at 4:29. Good as Garand Thumb videos are, they're so much better with Charlie (and his broken green plastic rake) in them.

I like how garand thumb posts while I’m at grandmas house after church

Great video! Keep the awesome content coming!!!!!

For those who wear Rx glasses, either get a good GM that you can get the frame incert that holds your Rx lenses or the divers type that has the thin band that goes around the back of your head. I wore the latter in the fire service for 25 years, they are very effective with non pressure demand GM's, Good point about clean shaven face, your GM and filter are only as good as the seal you have.

Mira makes prescription glasses inserts for their masks. They stay with the masks. I used to work in a chemical plant with a full face respirator in 120 degree heat doing manual labor. My biggest thing is make sure you clean your mask, they will absolutely grow mold. Learn to take it apart and make sure you have tons of spare parts.

Thank you flannel dad and team for getting lung cancer to educate us! 🙌

Purge your mask instead of ripping it off in the cloud. Fight through the panic and discomfort. Practice up drills with the rifle shouldered a little higher and canted to the left to reduce or eliminate a cheek weld. You will be tempted to press your cheek harder into the buttstock to get a good sight picture but that will break your seal and youre straight up not gonna have a good time. This is less of an issue with an optic riser. Limit the gear attached around where your filter will be so you can look down towards that direction or duck your head without breaking the seal. Try to breath out through your nose as much as possible to prevent fogging. If your junk fogs up, exhale a little harder through the vent like youre blowing out a candle to help exhaust some of the moist air trapped. Do more cardio.

Have a couple masks I had as boat treasure when I got out. Definitely need to stock up on filters and train with them when I can.

The Chinese mask worked fine. It clearly sealed and is threaded for the same 40mm filters. It just didn't come with a filter intended for tear gas.

I hated the gas mask during my military service. It made everything more difficult, it was harder to see and during summer time it was hot af. The tear gas training was fun though as was the "going through a burning building" exercise. We only practiced on how to seal it yourself because during an active gas attack, you have to put on the mask lightning fast.

These tests are my favorite thing you do. Very informative on product quality and functionality. Happy Fathers Day, my dude

Fun fact if you are issued a gas mask (especially reserves) look up the serial number on the filter. When I was in looked mine up out of boredom can’t really remember exactly but it was either listed as wayy expired or something else but it was not serviceable.

Excellent dad advice!

Happy Father’s Day to all ya!! Micah coming through with legit dad advice! And as usually Charles reaffirmed why he is a national and comedic treasure 😂

Finally someone does a video like this!!!

Excellent dad advice

You can get adapters fabricated to use any kind of filter with common respirators. There’s even options for changing your negative pressure mask into a positive air pressure system. If you do this then even if your seal is compromised you won’t suffer air contamination.

Its always great to see videos like these. Its like a mix between a science and a review video, and i love it!

Would love to see a followup video testing some foreign surplus gas masks, with modern filters.

Sam out there doing the basic training laps was funny as hell

When I went through boot camp, I was told by one of my DIs that if you breathe in enough tear gas quick enough your body would acclimate to it and it wouldn’t bother you so much. My buddy did a terrible job of sealing my mask so as soon as they started cooking it up I was choking out, so I started breathing non as much gas as I could in anticipation of being ordered to doff the masks. Took off the mask when ordered and started taking in massive open mouthed breaths of CS. The instructors came over and thought something was wrong with me. Trying to be a hard ass I yelled, very broken up from all the choking and gagging “No Sir, bring it on” that DI had it out for me for sure hell of a memory.

When I woke up this morning, I did not expect to see grown men frolicking in toxic smoke like children. @06:17 "WOOHOO!"

Man…I was literally just putting some in my Amazon cart the other day not even kidding. This is incredibly good timing.

Glad to see that czech OM90 (Mira) made it overseas. You wouldn't believe how handy it is for an allergic for anything around the house.

06:41 when your mask works so good you forget there is gas around....

If you get exposed to tear gas DO NOT RUB YOUR FACE OR EYES

Can you guys re-do this but shooting drills while in the tear gas? Would be nice to see clearing a room while tear-gas is active with gas mask! Love you content watch everyday

i have that same Chinese gas mask and during the wild fire with all the smoke in the air it worked really well for a cheep mask

I think everyone should own a Gasmask. You never know when you need one. It doesent cost much and can safe lifes. No matter if it's smoke from a burning house or some othe toxic aerosols.

The Cm-7m gasmask, aka the one from Tennant, has a narrower field a vision but is far superior for using magnified optics. Its actually what that style is meant for, having the two individual eye pieces recessed like that. It allows for you to get the scope much closer to your eye. Panoramic style masks like the other styles yall had are superior for holos and red dots, but do not work with most magnified optics. If your running in a squad that has a designated marksmen, you would want him using the Cm-7m so he can actually use a scope, while the rest of you use panoramic masks for a superior fov and target acquisition. That's just my 2 cents, I have no military background or nothin, just like studying history and tactics. I also own a Cm-7m that I got for $80 in pristine condition from a milsurp store as "issued." From what I hear, Mira gets them from the Czech military and refurbishes them, so there won't be any real difference with one you get from mira and one imported from the Czech republic. Its definitely not a bad mask, but isn't the best either, but its better than having nothing for sure, as I live in a big city, and with things going the way they are, a riot ain't an unlikely occurrence.

This was absolutely fantastic 😂

i love the casual blood on their hands

My favorite mask by far is the Honeywell survivair opti-fit I wore one everyday 8 hours a day for about 2 years in an industrial context extremely comfortable and seals well when you're running around working. it's a pricey mask tho

Charles is too funny man and the little edit at the mask joke was elite😂

Charlie's always on point with the big facts. 👌

Garand thumb: Trash talk Chinese masks Also garand thumb: *Buy obviously wrong filters* Also garand thumb: Keeps trash talking the Chinese masks

I didn’t even try to, but I’m a mechanic in a CBRN unit and I do so much Chem shit, all this stuff is great knowledge. Thanks dudes

tell ya what they are really digging into the CBRN training these days. you guys did a great job showing the fitment process as well. it’s nice when people on youtube actually know what they’re doing

I love how they never told us at Basic that the gas would deposit on your uniform and to keep it away from everything, else you contaminate everything and get a nasty surprise a few days later. lol

Former CBRN specialist 74D and current Hazmat technician. If you have facial hair you’re afraid will not allow a good seal I learned a trick from a spec ops guys to ensure you have a good seal. All you have to do is apply a good amount of Vaseline to the mask around the edges that creates the seal and you have a guaranteed seal . Obviously if you’re conventional military like I was then facial hair isn’t normally an issue as there are few instances where you can have facial hair