05-16-2016, 11:21 PM
If it is there (it is present in portable tube radios like Zenith Transoceanic) you will see it. It is typically a sheet asbestos.
They scare people with it, but it is a danger wben you constantly encounter it or get into a demolition of something containing it...in other words it is not volatile and if you do not decide to drill it, rub it, vacuum it, run around waving it, it won't hurt you. Somehow mesothelioma is not very much present in general population from 20s to 80s when the dangers were not studied and it was widely used in electrical devices, from the radios and soldering irons to household irons. And changing the heating element in the iron was the man of the house' job.
You shouldn't sniff it. This is about it.
They scare people with it, but it is a danger wben you constantly encounter it or get into a demolition of something containing it...in other words it is not volatile and if you do not decide to drill it, rub it, vacuum it, run around waving it, it won't hurt you. Somehow mesothelioma is not very much present in general population from 20s to 80s when the dangers were not studied and it was widely used in electrical devices, from the radios and soldering irons to household irons. And changing the heating element in the iron was the man of the house' job.
You shouldn't sniff it. This is about it.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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