Quote Originally Posted by wombat2u2004 View Post
I could imagine what that manual contains. If it's anything like ours, you'd have to get dressed up like Neil Armstrong to go near the bloody stuff.
We had quite a few deaths here attributed to asbestos in the Navy. Evidently they used to wrap the pipes in the engine rooms and places like that with a loose kind of asbestos lagging....Asbestos Blue ??? I think they called it from memory.
Pretty much. Full bunny suit with pumped in air. Main way to remove the crap is to soak it completely then remove it, then wash down the area where it was removed.

There are three fiber types of asbestos, depending on where it's mined. Looking it up, blue asbestos would be reasonable, as it's mined down under.

It was used all over naval ships, some of the vids from WW2 construction yards are eerie. The dust is so thick in the air you can't see through it.