Rich,
Will probably go about the same time as you.
Spent my wastrel college days working at a name brand company that makes
kidney dialysis and blood transfusion products. The plastic was extruded
from polyvinylchlorate (PVC) plastic. Eight hours a day for months, for
multiple summers sucking down the fumes from the extrusion heads (plus
history of cancer in the family) probably does me no good. But hey!, enjoy
life while you can!!! Look at Steve McQueen. Lots of good life between the
ship builders' asbestos of the '40s and his death.
As the bikers like to say - -
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse!
Larry Smith
Chester, VA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Williams II" <richw@nwlink.com>
To: <lro@works.team.net>
Sent: 30 May, 2001 02:40 PM
Subject: LRO: Re: RE: Asbestos (was tuning by eye)
> 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.
> >
> > _________________________________________
> > C. Marin Faure
> > Producer/Director, Boeing Video Services
> > telephone (425)393-7721
> > mobile (206)650-5622
> > fax: (425)393-7741
> > e-mail: marin.faure@boeing.com
> >
> >
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