What about the poor mechanic taking off a brake drum filled with 40,000
miles worth of asbestos brake dust? On any brake assembly that needs a few
whacks to loosen the drum, a cloud of brake dust fills the air. Do you know
anyone that wear a respirator while doing a brake job?
The pencil lead idea sounds interesting. How/where do you apply the lead to
the pads?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lro@Works.Team.Net [mailto:owner-lro@Works.Team.Net]On
Behalf Of Faure, Marin
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:00 PM
To: 'Land Rover Mail Group'
Subject: LRO: Asbestos (was tuning by eye)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 04:20:47 +0200
From: jos de vries <J.W.J.deVries@student.tudelft.nl>
Subject: LRO: Re: Re: Tuning by eye
Marin Faure wrote:
>>after the idiot government had the asbestos removed from brake lining.
>In Holland the workmen working on the laying of the tiles for the pavement
and small roads were found to have a lot of asbestos in there lungs, short
after there backs were broken at 40 they developed lungcancer. The
asbestoslevel is high in the filling in sand between the tiles.
I can understand the need to eliminate asbestos exposure in those instances
where people are actually working with the material. But the hysteria over
asbestos is, I think, misplaced when it comes to things like brake and
clutch
linings which are machine-made. If the manufacturing facility is set up
properly, human exposure to the material can be eliminated or kept within
safe limits. I've seen asbestos when it comes out of the ground- it's just
a
greasy rock. Anything can be bad for you, even too many carrots.
Asbestos is a very useful material. Like nuclear power, the trick is to
work
with it intelligently, not simply ban it out of fear. When they took
asbestos
out of brake and clutch lining material, I doubt it saved anyone's life, but
it
created new and expensive problems with brakes and clutches.
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