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joecb

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Just my $0.02 worth… the asbestos hysteria is greatly over blown. A real gold mine for the lawyers. Now having said this, understand that, yes many people contracted lung cancer attributed in part or fully to asbestos. But you have to understand that if the problem was as bad as the lawyers make it out to be no one would have survived the 20th century. In my life time asbestos was in just about everything… all industrial insulation, fire protective coatings, protective clothing, floor tile, wall board, building siding, roofing material, caulk, gaskets, brake linings, … it goes on and on ! In the Navy we regularly donned a full asbestos fire fighting suit as part of weekly fire drills. We should all be dead by now! If you encounter an old gasket or packing, just use common sense, don’t sand, grind of break it up where you can breath in the dust.
Joe B