johnjin
Established Member
Hi Everyone
I just thought I would let you know my thoughts and experience of the Trend Airshield.
After many years of not bothering with anything as far as dust protection goes, my wife finally got on to me to get something for the dust. I had just recently started using hardwood and MDF and must admit that I was getting a little concerned after reading some of the horror stories about what the dust can do to you. After reading a lot of reports about all the different systems I decided on the Trend Airshield. The reason I went for this was that it covered my face completely and pumped cool clean air constantly over my face. Being someone who wears glasses, it was important to me that they didn’t steam up. It also left me completely mobile with no wires dangling and you can flip up the visor if you want to. It will run for four hours on a single battery charge and takes only seconds to change to another one.
Well I’ve had this for just over six months now and to be completely honest I must have been stupid not buying it long before. When I’m turning it stops all the chips from coming in your face and there is no problem at all with the dust. Routering is great without the taste of dust when using MDF but because of its compactness you have the freedom to move around at will. Sanding, planing, thicknessing it really is good because of the freedom it gives you. A second battery is a must as it takes fourteen hours to charge. You can even put two batteries in at the same time which will give you eight hours continuous running. If you do this then I would recommend a second charger because of the charging time.
After saying all these good points about this mask we come down to whether it is value for money. Well it certainly does everything that it should do but imho it is well over priced. There is nothing solid about this mask and I just can’t understand how they can justify the price for the mask or the batteries. The only reason they can get away with these prices is there doesn’t seem to be any comparable competition. So even believing that it is so over priced I would still recommend this to anyone. It won’t remove the dust floating around in the air in your workshop but it will stop it from getting into your lungs all the time you are wearing it. If you have no other protection from dust at all, I really believe you can’t go wrong with the Trend Airshield.
All the best
John
I just thought I would let you know my thoughts and experience of the Trend Airshield.
After many years of not bothering with anything as far as dust protection goes, my wife finally got on to me to get something for the dust. I had just recently started using hardwood and MDF and must admit that I was getting a little concerned after reading some of the horror stories about what the dust can do to you. After reading a lot of reports about all the different systems I decided on the Trend Airshield. The reason I went for this was that it covered my face completely and pumped cool clean air constantly over my face. Being someone who wears glasses, it was important to me that they didn’t steam up. It also left me completely mobile with no wires dangling and you can flip up the visor if you want to. It will run for four hours on a single battery charge and takes only seconds to change to another one.
Well I’ve had this for just over six months now and to be completely honest I must have been stupid not buying it long before. When I’m turning it stops all the chips from coming in your face and there is no problem at all with the dust. Routering is great without the taste of dust when using MDF but because of its compactness you have the freedom to move around at will. Sanding, planing, thicknessing it really is good because of the freedom it gives you. A second battery is a must as it takes fourteen hours to charge. You can even put two batteries in at the same time which will give you eight hours continuous running. If you do this then I would recommend a second charger because of the charging time.
After saying all these good points about this mask we come down to whether it is value for money. Well it certainly does everything that it should do but imho it is well over priced. There is nothing solid about this mask and I just can’t understand how they can justify the price for the mask or the batteries. The only reason they can get away with these prices is there doesn’t seem to be any comparable competition. So even believing that it is so over priced I would still recommend this to anyone. It won’t remove the dust floating around in the air in your workshop but it will stop it from getting into your lungs all the time you are wearing it. If you have no other protection from dust at all, I really believe you can’t go wrong with the Trend Airshield.
All the best
John
