30-10-2020, 07:05 PM
Hi all,
Before retirement I worked in the power industry and in my early days asbestos was the predominant insulant. There was so much of it about I heard stories of laggers having asbestos snowball fights. It is now illegal to fit asbestos products, that's in addition to your health hazards. The current advice in my (ex) company when removing compressed asbestos fibre (CAF) gaskets - the motor industry used them, they're recognisable as a mottled pink colour - is to spray and dampen them down with a garden squirter bottle when scraping them off. Asbestos is only dangerous if fibres become airbourne. I'd recommend you should do the same if working on asbestos brake or clutch linings. Be very wary of anything white and fibrous, unless you definitely know it isn't asbestos treat it as such, some get away without lung problems but regrettably I've known too many who haven't.
Sorry to sound sactimonious, Dave
Before retirement I worked in the power industry and in my early days asbestos was the predominant insulant. There was so much of it about I heard stories of laggers having asbestos snowball fights. It is now illegal to fit asbestos products, that's in addition to your health hazards. The current advice in my (ex) company when removing compressed asbestos fibre (CAF) gaskets - the motor industry used them, they're recognisable as a mottled pink colour - is to spray and dampen them down with a garden squirter bottle when scraping them off. Asbestos is only dangerous if fibres become airbourne. I'd recommend you should do the same if working on asbestos brake or clutch linings. Be very wary of anything white and fibrous, unless you definitely know it isn't asbestos treat it as such, some get away without lung problems but regrettably I've known too many who haven't.
Sorry to sound sactimonious, Dave