[SEL] scary... you can still buy asbestos./now govern"munt".

[Al Harris]

For those that are unfamiliar or uninitiated, and interested.

> http://www.workershealth.com.au/facts031.html

Al Harris
New South Wales, Au


Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> Alan you should put them on e bay. Could get good money for them as 
> antiques.  There is still a lot of uses for asbestos if you have 
> common sense how to use it and cut it.  In my life time i have 
> installed a hundred squares or so on houses. We cut it with a big 
> machine that cut like a paper cutter did not make any dust.
> R Fink
> 
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> 
> 
> At 03:55 PM 1/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
>> Every time I run into a conversation like this I cringe a bit about 
>> those two days spent replacing asbestos siding on a house back 
>> around 1985 or 86.
>> There were a lot of doors and windows to cut around.
>> All those cuts were made with a metal cutting Carborundum blade in 
>> my circular saw.  The air was a solid cloud of asbestos dust.
>> No,  There were no masks of any kind to be found.
>> HEY,,, I just happen to know where there is a stack of NOS Asbestos siding.
>> Still in what's left of the boxes.
>> My Dad stacked them there and he died in 1960.
>>
>> Alan Bowen
>> Williamsburg, Michigan
>>
>>
>>
>> peter ogborne <jopeter at omninet.net.au> wrote: Having had a  mate who 
>> as a young man worked at Wittenoom in the bagging
>> plant and died at the age of 31 of Asbestosis, I certainly would handle the
>> stuff in ''Full Body Armour"" as Reg puts it! The three months '' Holiday
>> Job'' was Peters one and only contact with Asbestos ,a fatal one as it
>> turned out.
>> I am sure what Patrick was referring to was the inclusion of the product in
>> imported Chinese toys .These were remote controlled cars .............when
>> they eventually break a lot of boys would start to take them to pieces and
>> then come into contact with the Asbestos.
>> If the product is hazardous surly we want the Government to tell us!!
>>
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