Thread: Triton powered respirator $98 Bunnings Burleigh Heads

If this becomes another MOF event I'd just like to say the respirator is one of the most useful things I've ever bought. I use mine all the time, probably more than any other single tool in my shed. In fact at $99 I might get a second one.

Guys, I've just rung about three of them, and they reckon the things are still scanning through at full price, which was two-hundred-and-something dollars...

Just by the by, one interesting thing that one of the toolshop boys said to me when I also asked him about the price of the big Router (which remained at "Full Price" - approx. $389 or so) was that they were going to keep being brought in as a stocked item, whereas the small Router had been earmarked for deletion. Go figure...

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

I just ducked into the local Bunnings and they are still scanning at full price there.

While there, I spoke to a kid with a scanner and we went through half the Triton range, nothing else scanned lower than the marked price. But's he's got my number and the promise of a case of beer if he can keep an eye out for more deals .

Just checke two near home and still full price. I had heard to from Bunnings that they were only deleting the smaller router.

By the way, Bayswater Bunnings appears to have lots of stuff out on special...The tool area has all been reorganised now. (1 pm)

Chipman

I got one last week from the Belrose store in NSW
I paid the ticket price which was $197

Its taking a while to get used to wearing it - but I'm sure my lungs will appreciate it.

I was wondering if anyone else has suffered like
I have with these powered respirators. I almost fall over everytime I drop my guts which swmbo reckons I do all too frequently. There must be a better air intake location than on the back of your belt.

Originally Posted by Canetoad

I was wondering if anyone else has suffered like
I have with these powered respirators. I almost fall over everytime I drop my guts which swmbo reckons I do all too frequently. There must be a better air intake location than on the back of your belt.

Originally Posted by Canetoad

I was wondering if anyone else has suffered like
I have with these powered respirators. I almost fall over everytime I drop my guts which swmbo reckons I do all too frequently. There must be a better air intake location than on the back of your belt.

Yeah, same problem. Can't turn after a curry night.

I'm afraid I already know the answer, but does this mean I have been a complete @#$%wit to buy it from Carba-tec at $275?

Triton set up sale tables at just a few stores most of the time they are returns from customers ect that stuffed the paper work up

just check were the earmuff join up a bit of a crappy plastic hold them on that easily breaks

Frank, your health is worth more than $275 so it doesn't really matter. Some paid more, some less, all get the same benefit. I think you know it wouldn't be wise to put off getting one to save a buck in the short term.

Not quite $98 but Just Tools have them for $199

Originally Posted by Canetoad

I was wondering if anyone else has suffered like
I have with these powered respirators. I almost fall over everytime I drop my guts which swmbo reckons I do all too frequently. There must be a better air intake location than on the back of your belt.

Good Heavens! Will the thing take those thicker gas-filtering "Spray Paint" filter cartridges? I can just picture you writhing on the ground gradually slowing down as you desperately try to wrench the thing off your face before you lapse into a coma...

Heck, if there was a "short" of any sort within the belt unit, you could also experience an internal "Flame-Out" right up the hose and into the helmet. No eyebrows or eyelashes, and internal burns to your lungs... It would be like living through a Napalm attack...

Good Luck with it my friend...
Batpig.

Originally Posted by Groggy

Frank, your health is worth more than $275 so it doesn't really matter. Some paid more, some less, all get the same benefit. I think you know it wouldn't be wise to put off getting one to save a buck in the short term.

Of course, Greg, but the issue here is not time, it's place. For all the crap mass marketing outlets have been dished out on this forum, I would have been wiser to look there first instead of going straight to the specialist shop, wouldn't I? (I am talking about the $197 ones, not the rejects.) Either Triton is crap, and the specialists should not sell it as it were good stuff, or it is not, and it is wise to buy where the markup is not ludicrous. I should bookmark this thread and quote it every time the boring diatribe on this topic turns up, as it regularly does.