No LR related but here's a good one. My folks recently had one of their
bathroom floors replaced recently due to water damage. The house was built
in 1980 which is around the same time that asbestos use was banned in
residential flooring. Yet there was still quite a lot of asbestos-laden
flooring in the supply chain through the very early eighties. Anyway, some
poor laborer took a power saw to the flooring and unknowingly filled the
house with asbestos dust (as well as his lungs - yikes!). That night I was
laying on the floor looking down into the framing to inspect the damage
(I've built several homes in the past and was keeping an "eye" on things for
my parents). When I stood up from the prone position I looked at one of the
floor scraps laying about and thought it looked suspicious. The test is to
bend the flooring. If you take a corner and bend it up and it easily
flexes, no problem. But if you bend it over and it snaps and breaks as if
it were brittle then it is likely positive for asbestos. I immediately had
it tested and sure enough - loads of the junk. And I was white with dust
from laying on the floor - so who knows what will happen in the future. And
how many old bathroom floors does this other guy saw up in an average year,
not knowing anything about what he is cutting into?? $55,000 later the
insurance company (who recommended the contractor who did the bathroom
repair) had the house cleaned up. But that still left carpet with a lot of
asbestos so that had to be replaced at an additional cost of many thousands
of dollars. The contractor immediately filed for bankruptcy protection and
left town. Apparently, with several of the insurance company's jobs in a
similar state of chaos with asbestos problems and the like.
And so life goes on....
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Treanor <ttreanor1@yahoo.com>
To: <lro@works.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:47 AM
Subject: LRO: RE: Asbestos (was tuning by eye)
> 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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