Taking a look at some EO-14 style filters

hello so in today's video we're going to look at various types of a o14 filters or filters like a Oh 14 filters so the EO 14 was kind of this soviet-bloc filter that was used for quite a long time by infantry and there was a slightly shorter version of it as far as I'm aware there was they said these were kind of the filters for most part I think most of these nations used before the sort coffee cannon filters were the standard type ones so these are very similar to the old sort of World War one and World War two sort of box respirator I guess you'd call them box filters if you think of the English box respirator or color-corrected box respirator they normally had filters like this the mark 1 and Mark you know like sorry mark for mark 5 gas masks GSL Britain used hassle orange filters very similar to this so these were quite you know like common and popular filter designs so it was later on the Soviet Union they actually went to the more coffee can type design so be store very kindly sent me these and he sent me a load of other stuff recently and all three of these filters are actually different although they look similar so let's go over it so this one the one in the middle as far as and where is the standard no.14 that's got like a funky sort of pattern on it but as I said the year four team seems to be like with Soviet bloc standard one that Poland and a lot of other nations used the one on the left is actually the old polish one apparently so this one is called an mo to 397 IX 5655 so I imagine 56 might be 1956 but yeah it's definitely not your standard EO 14 if you look at the bottom of it you'll be able to see that it's got a different kind of plug than the year four teams have it's got you know it's that's actually quite different so let's get the plug open and another interesting thing of this filter is that it has like a ripped design as it goes up but it obviously on camera thing you can see it there regular REO for teens don't look like that so it looks like this filter essentially goes up a long tube until it gets to the particular sort of thing and then I guess the chuckles in here I know some of these filters might actually kind of go up the sides I think and then they go into a charcoal kind of reservoir at the top okay at the top cap open this window now you can see there's some hairy stuff in there and I'm pretty sure that's cotton wool but I'll be able to test that in a moment basically what I'll do is weave all the filters look like I've got cotton wool in the top I'm gonna pull it out cuz I wouldn't want them in there anyway and then I'm going to try and set on fire if it sets on fire and burns properly as cotton wool if it doesn't it sounds best awesome I'm pretty ship a certain this is cotton more generally asbestos when it was used was lower down in the particulate filters section so that cot malls probably there to block in any charcoal dust that might have come out of the you know bit underneath it again we'll have a look at that a bit close for a minute so let me pop the cap back on this filter so this one has the sort of proper rubber sort of seal at the bottom and you can see there that this one actually kind of has a great and then it has a particulate filter there so that particular filter that you can see they're kind of the HEPA design if this has asbestos in that will be where it is basically it's woven into the other materials again if the filters are working properly these aren't actually risky to breathe through personally though as I've said a lot of times before don't really risk using these old filters even if something like this didn't have asbestos in um you know even if the charcoal dust leaks that's not good for you if you want to get you know fb5 filters or something similar be store sells them and I'd obviously recommend using those over these if you bail them briefly and used it for a brief period they're probably perfectly safe but you know like a lot of these filters I wouldn't really recommend you actually wear them even with modern filters I say to an extent I wouldn't really recommend wearing them unless you have to use them I mean I use them a lot cuz I do stuff with them in videos but you know breathing through filters for the sake of breathing through filters isn't really a good thing so there you go there's the inside of this one as you can see that's got your kind of it looks like a cotton layer underneath the metal grate and then that would be where all the charcoal is so these filters might be perfectly safe I really don't know I said I would personally err on the side of caution and use more modern filters but in theory if that particle layer at the top is in good condition nothing should be able to get out of the filter but you know just a warning lots of filters of the area did use asbestos it's the actual coffee can filters we know for certain news now asbestos these ones I'd kind of suspect it but you know don't know now this is an East German one so they called it the O 14 and then a triangle but it also says a o 24 IX at the bottom so this one I guess is 1962 maybe two all of these have a date on the other side that one I guess is 1986 I think he was saying to me in his letter the modern Polish army only up until recently was still using these so these ones are probably actually quite good filters if they were made you know fairly late this one I can't see a date on it but um maybe 256 but anyway so this is an East German woman from the 60s I guess before they went to the coffee can filters so that was character off the bottom there we go and that's actually got a different bottom on this one it's like a flat panel so you can see there's a particulate bit underneath if you turn it at an angle but yeah that's a flat bottom rather than the grille but it looks otherwise to be a same kind of particulate design as the other filters used and again this one's got cotton wool in the top I guess I don't know I'll be over to see that camera maybe not very well at all but there is some cotton wool in the top there so the same logic applies what I will be doing is now we'll take the these two filters outside here and what I'll be doing with these two is taking the cotton one out with some tweezers putting a light to them and seeing if they actually ignite if they ignite and burn fine that cotton wool at the top is definitely cotton one last best dose if it leaves some sort of weird residue it's asbestos but again this is one of those don't try this at home kind of things I'm just quite curious myself as I've said to people before if you're gonna cut up old Soviet filters and things I'm not going to cut these up be very careful because you could actually you know expose yourself to some the quite nasty stuff in the filters if you actually decide to soar open filters like this you know and look at the inside to make sure you you're using a pee free particulate mask doing it in an area you can clean out of asbestos don't do it in your living room or something like that right have a look okay first up the cotton wool from the old polish filter now let's see if it burns a lot I'd be pretty certain that his cotton wool by look at that just do a little bit more flaming foot well that's pretty singed out of what if Mike was ask best awesome that would have you know been quite fire resistant because that's bestest is used because it was my retardant that's smaller anyway as far as you can probably see down there so yeah I'm pretty sure a certain that in that old polish shelter that is in the cotton well at the top that's not to say that there might not be a best or somewhere else in the filter but the stuff at the top I'm pretty certain it's cotton wool because it's burned up I said I wouldn't want to be inhaling weird lips if I would calm well anyway so I'll make sure it called out how at the filter before I use it as far as I'm aware that is actually cotton more and there's some of the cotton wool type stuff from the East German filter so let's give that a bit of flame and see what happens seems to be burning again fairly easily not much left bit residue yeah that's definitely cotton ball in that because it just burned up so easily oh yeah I would guess that both the cotton layers on top of those filters were actually cotton wool not asbestos that's not to say asbestos isn't somewhere else deep down in the filter but as far as I'm concerned the stuff at the top is just cotton wool that's been put there to stop on any charcoal leaking out and going into your male school with the lungs you know should breathing through the mask of the filter on it so there you go as far as I'm aware none of those how nice best dose in the top five shown because that cotton will layer burn properly people was saying to me that this middle one the actual polish yo for teens from quite late CS one's dated the 8th 80s 86 they were still being used by the Polish army until very recently so hopefully they're safe you know it really depends what you want from a filter and everything now I might do a quick test the 86 one because you know I think I'm less likely to inhale anything hazardous from that one remember what I've said before though if you put a particulate free pad in between the filter intake of the mask and where the filter is you can actually block asbestos that way I'm not gonna do that to very quickly test the filter but we'll see if I can smell any banana oil through it I don't think I will because even though it's very old those filters normally have such an insane amount of charcoal in them what's quite interesting is that Poland went from that filter on the left to the filter in the middle they're very similar but not quite the same the things like East Germany went from the Year fourteen style filters to the coffee cam filters I assume the coffee cans probably meant to be a bit more robust or something called have a bit more charcoal and I don't know I don't know what every nation the Warsaw Pact did I don't know what Czechoslovakia did I think for the most part Czechoslovakia for example went completely to m10 masks with cheek filters but yeah as far as I'm aware Russia and East Germany then went from these to the coffee cam filters but it seems a communist Poland whatever reason stuck with the EO for teens up until the end of the Cold War and then used them as a sort of surplus filter for quite a while for training and stuff like that of their military afterwards before they're obviously going to modern sort of fb5 type filters now but yeah interesting so anyway let's do a quick test with that zo 14 in the middle and see if it works okay so because israeli masks have an almost Fred I should just be able to put this giant filter on here again this isn't how you're obviously meant to use the filters they go on the hose as I've shown in videos before but for this video this should be absolutely fine seems like it's pressurising okay bit impractical because it wants to break the see on the mouse and await the hilt of it and I can't smell that yeah so the filter work still to a degree anyway um don't say how effectively it would work 97 on roof so yeah um I've said how safe these filters are I can't completely tell you I'd certainly think they were safer at least Epona Co for teens and the coffee can filters used in other places because we actually know that they have asbestos in from Soviet documents spite of the shoes some models of these would have had us best Asin however as said the asbestos would be in that very bottom particulate layer there so if the filters working properly the asbestos can't get out there's actually more dangerous vestals fibres falling out listen then there is being inhaled through the filter but um yeah these are cool collectibles anyway lots of people say to me just get some control more easily lots people say to me oh um you know I've got this old filter it's probably got asbestos in how do I throw it away first see if it's got asbestos in you can't legally throw it in your regular bin in most countries because if you put in the trash you could expose people working in the waste industry to asbestos so don't do that if you really have to get rid of it get it destroyed by an asbestos removal site but if you're like me what you actually want to do is just keep it if you plug a filter like this up like that there's no danger of asbestos leaking out the metal on the filter is good solid metal is not going to crack open easily and let out contaminants so do with it what you will I said these these are actually quite impressive filters for what they are because filters like this are so chunky they do actually you know the charcoal inside lasts up sadly ages because there's so much charcoal in it compared to a conventional small filter but again at the same time don't take unnecessary risks I'd always advise using modern filters over old filters just because we know they definitely are a lot safer and they're more likely to work properly as well but these are definitely interesting curio so thanks to be store for sending me these in the link I'll put a link below to his store I don't know if he actually sells filters like this unless they come with other stuff because he mostly sells fb5 and more safe filter variants these are kind of interesting curios and I kind of collect filters a bit as well as collecting the gas masks themselves so you know I'm I have quite a lot of us bestest filters that I'm completely happy to have in the house because I have them sealed up you know I wouldn't breathe through them but for a lot of people obviously they wouldn't want to get those filters . so there you go that's a polish co 14 filter an old polish kind of EO 14 style filter and east germany o 14 filter called the EO 24 IX so there we go interesting thing is i think the East Germans a bit lighter maybe even the Polish runtime coming off to get some scale one way um but the Met will so different on them as well slightly anyway this is more like a punishment I'm rambling now so yeah there you go now will be a link below if you want to see some of B store stuff on eBay but yeah thanks to him for sending neediest filters that's kind of interesting that not all EO 14 filters are actually the exact same thing I wouldn't even realize that but yeah thanks for watching you

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Length: 16min 56sec (1016 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 15 2018