[SEL] Babbitrite

[Steve W.]

Mark Shulaw wrote:
> I might be my house is sided with them. There was 
> a version of these shingles too the are often 
> mistaken for asbestos. They are actually some 
> type of a material that makes you think of a soft 
> ceramic or plaster or cementacious material. They 
> break something like tile. My house has a mixture 
> of asbestos and these.  Where are you in Michigan?  Mark S.
> 
> 
> At 10:49 PM 1/8/2015, you wrote:
>> Anyone here want a three foot stack of NOS 
>> asbestos siding shingles?Really they are still 
>> in what is left of the original; wrappers.My 
>> dad's health was failing him as he completed the 
>> "new" house so he never got around to putting up 
>> the rest of the siding on what was left of the 
>> old two story farm house he tore down to build 
>> the new one in 1957. There are plenty houses 
>> around here that still have that asbestos siding 
>> on them.There used to be a guy here that would 
>> pay $0.50 each for used ones.Alan in 
>> Michigan      

I used a bunch of them in my old forge, "sided" the interior wall with 
them as a shield from the heat and sparks.

-- 
Steve W.