P Type Oxygen Mask
 

I have a new mask & when I took the connector off the end of the hose a length of nylon cord dropped out. It is attached to a point in the mask. Does anyone know the purpose of it?

To prevent the hose being stretched to the point where the sides suck in and restrict flow.

It stops you over stretching the rubber hose. What connector was it? I'm looking for an MC-3A/1 hose connector if anyone has one lying around.

It makes the mask better for doing elephant impressions.

.... nah! Don't need a mask . . . just empty trouser pockets! :E

is it a snot-string? (as allegedly used by those stalwarts of the submarine service - the diesel crews. Hung near the hatch for going 'up-top' - every time you got to see the sky - add a bogey to the string and a 'beer-chit' to the box below. Once back in port at end of patrol, the by-now naan bread sized 'snot-flake' would be scoffed by someone to win the kitty - mmmm!:uhoh:)

Please tell me that's not true.

It would stick in Sharky's beard!

I'm eating my lunch!


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must be true - a submariner told me (ex-Upholder class crew) - that was the least offensive story he passed on! Someday someone will write a book about those guys..in the meantime, I can recommend 'Blind Man's Buff' by Shelly Sontag (sp?). Anyhoo, back to O2 masks...:)

Masks available here :E

Gentlemen's Masks

£150 a pop! For something made from c stores. If only I'd known!


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serious point
 

Alexis, If you were issued such kit to use why do you feel the need to take it to bits to see how it works? this really is kit your life depends upon. take it to your squipper to service/repair.

At least read the AP.

I don't belive there was ever such a thing as a Type P mask. P and Q were sizes. How terms have become corrupted. a bit like Hoover is a vacuum cleaner.Or should we call them Dysons today!

£150 is probably a bargain. we may have paid that just for the string. particularly if it was supplied cut to length with a knot on the end!!!