How did you know they were asbestos? Not as If they smell different or anything???

Originally Posted by AsterixTG

Also, you'd wipe everything down after with Trichloroethylene and I think that got banned as well.

Happy days...

Ah the good old days of cleaning things with spray cans of Trich, "Please Chief! I feel a bit wobbly!' then washing off your hands in a bucket of of the stuff and dipping your ovies in to get the worst off too.

Originally Posted by kenny629

How did you know they were asbestos? Not as If they smell different or anything???

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Bit of an Ironic dit coming up: Me old man survived Monte Casino albeit with severe head and arm wounds. He became naturalised British in about 1956 and worked in a factory in Sheffield for most of his life until retirement. He died 2 years ago at the age of 90 .... of asbestosis.

So we got VM's to change asbestos brake shoes to non asbestos brake shoes to avoid them being exposed to asbestos brake shoes? Sounds totally in line with normal MoD joined up thinking..........

Some of the 1 3/4 tonne trailers still had asbestos brakes & we only got rid of them not so long ago.
I only ever saw the hoover machine whilst i was a brat school in the mid eighties.

We used to damp em down then use the exhaust fume extractor.

Originally Posted by lacrabat

We used to damp em down then use the exhaust fume extractor.

We'd just blow the dust out with a Bedford air-line. We was well 'ard in them days. Cough-cough, hack, spit.

CVR(T) still use asbestos brakes, there's a big chuff off warning in the user manual about having to wear facemask/gloves etc when changing them due to the dust hazard.

Originally Posted by toryboy

CVR(T) still use asbestos brakes, there's a big chuff off warning in the user manual about having to wear facemask/gloves etc when changing them due to the dust hazard.

That's chuffin nice to know after spending 78-86 on the bloody things!