GP-5 Gas Mask review

hello everybody I thought I'd do a video on the most famous gas mask in the world because weirdly I've never done a review on it so here we go we're going to have a review of the Soviet qp5 gas mask or the Russian gp5 gas mask is also known so this is the world's most produced gas mask with over a hundred million of them made we'll have a look at the features and I'll give you my verdict and how good I think it is so the mask itself is a very simple latex hood it was made even a white grey sort of rubber like this one or a black rubber both are exactly the same in terms of features just the color of the rubber is different mask has the eyepieces crimped directly onto the rubber with a bit of fabric and bottom sort of filter in and out unit crimped onto there we'll look at those in a bit more detail in a moment mask itself is a simple latex hood it has move straps it's just pulled over the head mask was designed to be put in nuclear fallout shelters all across the Soviet Union and it was basically designed so you know everybody could have a gas mask all civilians they made over a hundred million of these now if you think about the population of the USSR during communist times that was bigger than a hundred million that there were other gas masks as well of this one that had been produced so unlike the previous dp4 mask to make masks in far more numerous numbers as gp5 they had to simplify things so the majority of this mask is just basically latex it fits on to the shape of your head but it's basically just a latex hood with an intake outtake port on the bottom and eye pieces on it so you simply stretch it over your head to put it on I'll demonstrate this in a moment you've got your intake valve there and your outtake valve there so as you can hopefully see the inside of this mask is very simple here's the outtake hold there and there's the intake it comes up through these tubes it blows onto the eyepieces to de Miss them and it also flows out into your sort of nose or mouth when you exhale it's lower down so it should be directed downwards the defog in system works quite well for that's so cheap as you can essentially see all this is is basically a latex hood with two eyepieces and the intake outtake at the bottom very simple no fancy features this is what made it so cheap to mass-produce now as this is the world's most produced gas masks with over a hundred million of these made you should be able to get this for easily under twenty dollars or 20 pounds complete with a carrying bag and a few other accessories a lot of people ask is there a danger in buying these in the sense of there being radioactive or something no these were simply just put into storage everywhere and were never issued because the Cold War never went hot the only danger of gp5 lies with their Russian filters or the Soviet filters and these are basically they have asbestos in the manure made and we now know of course asbestos is not safe so if you get one of these masks do not use the green filter just don't risk it put a new filter on it you can brute force a 40 millimeter NATO filter on it or you can buy a brand new 40 millimeter ghost filter from Eva Russia or Poland somewhere that uses this kind of filter port and put that on then the mask is perfectly safe and yes the masks still work as long as the valves are intact on your mask it will still function it's very very simple I've said you can get these with all the little canvas carry bags nothing exceptional there are much better gas smells bags out there but you have to weigh up how much your mouse costs on its own as compared to buying it as a complete set because you're going to want to put a new filter on it anyway okay I will now demonstrate how to put on the mask you grab the mask of both your hands like this on either side of it you put it into your chin and then pull it over or keeping this bit pulled so here we go not fit the masks on no is good you might want to adjust it if you get your chin in the right place throughout that the marsala Cologne is too loose top to go around with identify the fit you as you can see the Anton clogging system works very well as it works in the intended on check if you've got an electric field at your hand here when you inhale it will cause the mark pressurized because air can't get inside and you know when it clear tight to your fancy is pressurized so just get on this very again when I'm breathing in and out without land I'm not your mark the normals put my hand here and breathing and the mask all cyclamen place to remove it just pull it straight off your face it's really easy so I've mentioned it was much cheaper to make in the previous GP for masks because it's all one you've one rubber unit essentially and it has no straps it just Falls tight to your head if you like this sort of mask but want something more advanced there's the GP 5m also known as the GM GP 6 or the PM g to multiple names the same mask and that's essentially just the GP 5 with a voice diaphragm here so you can hear more clearly or at least other people hear you more clearly you speak louder with it on amplifies your voice or you can get some of the military masks that use the same kind of latex hood designers and GP 5 did but all in all for a very cheap mask as long as you don't use the asbestos filter that comes with them these GP 5s are actually really good master the price sure they could be more comfortable but if you think of what they did they made a hundred million of these masks very cheaply it don't cost much as surplus and it does its job it saves your life in a nuclear attack it's very very good because you also have to bear in mind a lot the other civil defense kind of masks like this built on a massive budget one up to the same standard as a GP five many nations like Britain actually designed masks and then we drew them because they realized it would cost too much to make masks for all this in population as evil as the communists were in many ways they at least made a mask for their entire civilian population so knows that to give you some example of that there's a British c7 respirator on the left this was made in the 1950s of the British population before the government decided they can afford to give everybody gas masks to come back and recycle them you can get your hands on one these is quite rare again don't wear it nasty stuff in the filter but a very interesting collector's item because there's so few of these around because they destroyed so many of them so all in all little money a GP five will cost you for a surplus gas mask it's actually very good it's a nice interesting bit of history it could save you from stuff if you put a new filter on it as long as it's in good condition and it doesn't cost you an arm and a leg so as long as you don't use the asbestos filter LaVette it's perfectly safe you

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Length: 7min 41sec (461 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2017