12-11-2020, 11:29 PM
Asbestos disease is a lottery, anyone over the age of fifty has had considerable exposure to Abestos yet not everone gets the diseases. I have heard that those affected, just on fibre could have been the culprit. Everyones mum had an Asbestos mat for her stovetop, then building products like ceramic tile underlays, laundry walls and anywhere there was hot water piping there was Asbestos lagging. For those who worked on their cars what did they do when they had a brake drum off? they huffed and puffed to blow the asbestos dust away or if lucky enough to have a compressor it would be the air hose. Personally I was shocked when I learned the risks, They were a closely guarded secret until the Seventies, I had just cut up some old AC roofing with a hacksaw. I always workrd on my own cars as well as used AC underlay many times. At age 83 I still worry about it but so far so good.