The stuff was used almost everywhere. According to the anti-asbestos propaganda, given it's toxicity most of the world should be dead or dying from it by now.
I used to work in the H+V industry and would discover situations of old and damaged degraded asbestos linings in air heater ducts in schools and offices. The dust being blown all over the building.
As a 30 year electrical contractor, I have personally known two other electricians that have passed from Mesothelioma- right in my town. Neither was old. one late 40’s, the other mid fifties. Kinda scary. Asbestos is everywhere electricians work. I’ve found the problem most pervasive in attics spaces..it’s wrapped around water pipes and furnace exhaust vents.
It is finally customary to test for asbestos...... rock wool, drywall, furnace pipe and duct insulation etc....if structure predates 1980, Contractors should ROUTINELY test before disturbing old construction materials for this and lead.
I graduated from engineering school in 1978. In college classes, Asbestos was still a miracle product. About 1981 or so, my 3000 person employer herded all 250 mechanical engineers into a conference room and told us “Thou shall no longer specify asbestos. Period end of discussion
Even this presenter said something like great care must be taken not to breath it" after describing the slivers of rock dividing 100 times less than a hair. Is the 30 millionths?
Companies made bank in the "Great Asbestos Removal Bidding Wars" throughout the 90's Tearing and breaking this stuff out of old schools and hospitals all around NY state. Some companies were cutting corners using inferior or no air filtration, no plastic tarps, coverings and lining, they caused more damage in the removal by releasing all the fibers into the air.
Yea this was a late 90s contractors wet dream. Go in to put down some tile. Oh no u got asbestos linoleum. Here's ur new bill, and my new Dodge 3500 4 door diesel pickup. Made allot of money off of people's fear of this stuff. Even when u tell them if u leave it alone it won't cause any problems people still tweak out and want it gone at any cost. And IT COSTS lemme tell u!
Whenever a TV commercial comes on to tout its product being _natural_ to imply that it is safe for use or consumption, I always talk back to the TV to say: "Lead and *asbestos* are also natural products!"
Well yeah, generally getting anything rough in our bodies has the effect you'd expect. But the wisest people know how to use it while minimizing risk. Too bad most people just want to pretend thier invincible to danger becasue they read too many glory stories and thus the stuff has to be banned. I feel if used today, people would probably deliberately scratch and sniff it like the "Covid parties" teens held and other stupid things like that.
This is like watching a horror movie in many ways. I can see why it was so popular, but it is scary how it was (and maybe still is) everywhere. I can feel the mesothelioma through my screen.
If every employee died from asbestos I think they would have outlawed it sooner. Do we even know what precentage of asbestos workers died from exposure?
When working in a metal fab plant, my company asked me to be lowered by forklift in huge annealing oven. It was lined with asbestos bricks, at least 50 years old, to do a repair. No safety equipment at all.
A confined space work environment. Air monitoring and supply, medical evac planned, stand by team for extraction, and whatever else I forgot from when I read the new standards. I'd be more worried about working in an oven, hoping somebody wasn't hungover that day. Every so often somebody gets trapped and cooks to death in a food factory.
By the 1970s when this promo was made the asbestos industry was fully aware of the harm it could do the lungs of humans. But continued to make the case there was no alternative. Those poor people working in that textile factor or those guys drilling and sawing the sheets. This is when the asbestos was most likely to get inhaled and remain in the lungs. A ticking bomb for lung cancer.
Many people involved in the asbestos industry like the workers lagging the ship pipes featured in this video. They never got any compensation for the crippling lung cancer as they died before they got justice. The industry knew all to well how dangerous the fibres were when airborne and provided very little protection for workers.
@@stephenellis3430 Just sad how through the entire last century people sitting comfy in thier chairs would condemn so many people to their deaths and then take all credit for victory or cover up their deaths for failure. And in the turn of the millenium, the only thing that remained are even more people sitting comfy in their chairs wishing others would suffer cause they're bored.
Yep, they absolutely knew way back in the 1930's that it could cause cancers. The children who mined it seldom lived to 35 years old. I read the case history of the trial. @@stephenellis3430
Fortunately it only tends to be aggressive towards the builders and eventual dismantlers of the building. As long as you don’t poke the dragon she keeps you safe. If you have asbestos in your house and it’s in a place where you never need to touch it, I would always leave it in situ, and possibly make a note of its presence to be passed on to future inhabitants.
This is prolly the only video ive ever seen that effectively demonstrates just how much asbestos was used everywhere. But seeing the kids play in the pool area constructed with asbestos hits pretty hard.
In the 1960's We had in grades 3.4.5.Powdered Abestos in our classrooms 😮 Add some water Mix it up in your hands 🙌 To make a paste for art class Making toys Houses 🏘 & dolls 🪆 After drying we would paint 🎨 them..Then take our art work home to show 🤗 Mom 👩
We had our home insulated with Asbestos in the 70's when I was just a kid. I watched them pump it into our walls. Immediately after our house was filled with a haze of asbestos floating everywhere, for months and months. It looked like floating snow. When I would watch tv in the dark I'd see the air filled with floating particles. My eyes would be burning. My mom was adversely affected and had to stay outside the house for awhile. I'm approaching 60 and am essentially healthy. I do have some health issues but not sure if it's related.
Get checked. It is free. You could be in line for some money from the fund set up for asbestos victims. Relatives of asbestos workers are now getting damage awards.
After watching this not-at-all biased film brought to you by the Asbestos Information Committee, I am convinced. Why are we not using this miracle material everywhere?
Cause no one in this country knows how to think for themselves, so 90% of people would either freak the f8ck out at the mentioning of the name, or deliberately try to kill people with it. Just can't have nice things
When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, every single suburban home had corrugated asbestos cement fences and lots of buildings had asbestos walls and roofs. I wonder what happened to them. What replaced asbestos for fire resistance? Is it still used for bearings?
They recently banned it in brake pads in the USA. That was about the last use of it here. It was all over homes in the USA too. The subdivision I grew up in had asbestos cement roofing shingles. It is not dangerous unless you inhale it. Problem is, sawing it releases some of the fibers. They used to cover exterior walls of homes with asbestos siding in New Orleans. The stuff will last forever if nothing hits it and breaks the shingles. As far as fire, all new commercial buildings above a certain small size, and all high rise buildings in the USA need to be sprinkled. Old buildings, like the New Orleans City Hall which I worked in, built in 1954, had to have sprinklers installed. It was full of asbestos which was eventually removed. A new City Hall is being planned. You might see my old 25 year, home away from home next year, because the 2025 NFL Super Bowl will be played in the Caesars Superdome on 9 February, 2025. You can see the huge dome across Poydras Street from City Hall. The edge of that dome roof is a lot steeper than it looks. I moved to Slidell after the Katrina flooding.
Wow they really had this stuff in everything back then. I know the main use was for pipe insulation in cellars, but didnt realize just how wide spread it was.
My grandparent's house was built in the 60's. Asbestos cement siding, asbestos sheeting on the door between the garage and house, asbestos floor tiles, asbestos pipe and ductwork insulation.
When I was a mechanic, I had to take care with brake dust. Even in the mid 90’s some cars still had asbestos in the brake and clutch linings. I didn’t know it was used in gaskets..
I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. They started shifting brake pads over to non-asbestos, and everybody (mechanics, aircraft owner/mechs, parts shops etc) started hoarding asbestos pads cause they just worked better.
Dorms at my college had sprayed asbestos in the ceilings. One summer around 1987 they sealed it all in some kind of spray sealant. Guys used to bounce golf, tennis, basketballs off it. Surprised we don’t all have lung cancer. Those buildings all razed 20 years ago now.
My high school had that. We used to try to get pencils to stick in it. The worst was the gym locker room. We used to throw sneakers and wet towels up at the ceiling an that asbestos fluff would come down in clumps.
A brand-new grade school I attended for a year or so in the 70s had a super-thick version of a popcorn ceiling. The whole school was open plan, with the library in the middle up a short flight of stairs. The taller kids could just reach the ceiling coating from the stairs, where the ceiling angled down, and we all took turns poking at it. We were surprised because it looked soft and fluffy, but felt like styrofoam. It was probably full of asbestos. We were breathing fumes from leaded gasoline every time we were in a car back then, too. I forget if it was Dow or some other company whose slogan was Better Living Through Chemistry. Fun times/s
I saw a video last year (a recently made video) of a man in Cuba relining brake shoes with an asbestos-mixed substance. He was working in the Cuba-approved safety apparel: sleeveless t-shirt, brightly colored shorts and flip-flops. He seemed to enjoy cigars while working, too.
Theses a very interesting promo video about asbestos in tarmac during the 1950s. They literally tip bag of the strands into the mixing machines by hand. Apparently it made the road last longer. But must of made so much asbestos dust as the road was used.
In a couple decades this video would be equally absurd: "Why you should love fossil fuels" by PragerU ua-cam.com/video/49Teja5YNCo/v-deo.html&pp=ygUfdGhlIG1vcmFsIGNhc2UgZm9yIGZvc3NpbCBmdWVscw%3D%3D
There once was a time asbestos was used in everything. Tiling cement, ceilings, curtains, firefighters clothing, roofing, warmwaterpipeinsulation, you name it.. Nothing wrong with the material when kept incapsulated until... you feel like renovating houses built in the 50's, 60's and early 70's..
I wonder why UA-cam includes warnings about tobacco or alcohol but doesn't include warnings about asbestos advertising? Nevertheless, the film is very interesting and I had no idea that asbestos was used in so many products, one could say on a massive scale.
The irony of asbestos is that the exact same property that made it so effective in building materials, is also what made it so deadly (indestructible, microscopic fibers, the body can't break them down)
From just about the same time as this film two British television programmes give a very different view of asbestos. Take a look at The Dust at Acre Mill and Alice - Fight for Life. They can both be found on UA-cam.
Why Asbestos? Because cancer! Seriously, this came out in 1970. Didn’t we understand by then that this stuff was hazardous to our health? I’m cringing at all the people in this who are handling the material without protective equipment.
Bro they knew the dangers of the products they marketed. They didn't care because they made money... They knew this stuff that was bad they didn't care because of greed
Yes, they did understand, and that's why there is one little sentence that's easily missed - 'Asbestos fibres are so small that we must be careful not to breathe them in' - or something. In the 60s they wouldn't have bothered with that, but by the 70s they couldn't ignore it anymore so they had to pay some lip service to the people demanding safety measures.
2:28 "Fibers so fine that care must be taken to avoid inhaling them". There's the rub. It is great for fireproofing, but if you inhale it you'll die. The World Trade Centers would not have collapsed had asbestos not been stopped during construction. Of course they would have been so badly damaged they may have needed to be demolished anyway. But when they did collapse the partial asbestos in building One was one of the cancer causing contaminants that got the victims and post-9/11 cleanup workers.
It was also used a lot wherever they needed fiber reinforcement. Cement pipe, cement roofing/siding, asphalt shingles/roofing, floor tiles, and even asphalt roads. ua-cam.com/video/IhBbF5sJkYM/v-deo.htmlsi=qLlOvNNxI3m5ojAz ua-cam.com/video/OERZBoUfHY8/v-deo.htmlsi=ip8LAGvsAK39fn3F
They keep remarking on its “mysterious” and “strange” properties. I feel like anything that’s still deemed strange or mysterious shouldn’t be mass-exploited yet.
They're really driving home the idea that asbestos = safety in this video. It looks like this film came out in 1970. With public awareness about the dangers and increasing government regulations since then the demand and use has only gone down. U.S. consumption of asbestos peaked in 1973 at 804,000 tons. The peak world demand for asbestos was around 1977. The U.S. in 2023 only consumed approximately 150 tons of chrysotile asbestos.
One thing this otherwise excellent film doesn’t mention, is that Asbestos is also an excellent thing to stub your cigar out on. And, while I’m at it, nothing makes a bacon sandwich taste better than to eat it off a slab of Uranium. Adds a pleasant tingle that’s best gotten rid of with a lot of alcohol and caffeine.
To be fair, that stuff is a miracle material. To bad it'll kill ya, because it was incredibly useful.
So will breathing the chemtrailed air the US military and private pilots spray us with everyday.
As long as you can seal it, so the fibers don't come out, asbestos is not a problem. The UK use to make roofing panels and buildings out of it.
The stuff was used almost everywhere. According to the anti-asbestos propaganda, given it's toxicity most of the world should be dead or dying from it by now.
@@jamescooley5744Asbestos shingles were very popular here after WW2. It was a binding agent for concrete and was pretty safe like that.
@@rogerbartlet5720Just about everyone who mined it is. And plenty who didn't. YTA
"And the ability to spray it on an existing building must have saved many a headache."
And destroyed many a lung.
came here to make exactly this comment. got defeated.
“Fiber so fine, that care must be taken to avoid inhaling them”. Interesting…
If only it were that easy.
It’s not just lung cancer asbestos causes all kinds of cancer
@@fjp912 ahem..... hem.... cough cough.... yeah
I used to work in the H+V industry and would discover situations of old and damaged degraded asbestos linings in air heater ducts in schools and offices. The dust being blown all over the building.
As a 30 year electrical contractor, I have personally known two other electricians that have passed from Mesothelioma- right in my town. Neither was old. one late 40’s, the other mid fifties.
Kinda scary. Asbestos is everywhere electricians work. I’ve found the problem most pervasive in attics spaces..it’s wrapped around water pipes and furnace exhaust vents.
It is finally customary to test for asbestos...... rock wool, drywall, furnace pipe and duct insulation etc....if structure predates 1980, Contractors should ROUTINELY test before disturbing old construction materials for this and lead.
Still the best substance for wrapping any leftover plutonium you have in the fridge.
How did I not think of this?? Thank you!
You rock! I have been saving leftover plutonium since the nineties, not knowing what to do with it. You have solved the issue.
Thank you.
We scientists* like to help.
* May be less scientisty than illustrated levels of scientistiness.
@@goglowdaddy1686 I sold mine to north korea...
I told you not to mention that.
I graduated from engineering school in 1978. In college classes, Asbestos was still a miracle product. About 1981 or so, my 3000 person employer herded all 250 mechanical engineers into a conference room and told us “Thou shall no longer specify asbestos. Period end of discussion
Even this presenter said something like great care must be taken not to breath it" after describing the slivers of rock dividing 100 times less than a hair. Is the 30 millionths?
@@rogueninja1685 I heard him say "breathe", not "breath", which sounds different.
For economic and supply reasons every pharma company i have worked for has made the same decree for the use of Helium
Companies made bank in the "Great Asbestos Removal Bidding Wars" throughout the 90's Tearing and breaking this stuff out of old schools and hospitals all around NY state. Some companies were cutting corners using inferior or no air filtration, no plastic tarps, coverings and lining, they caused more damage in the removal by releasing all the fibers into the air.
Looking at YOU Tony and crew!
@@nunyab8003 Session 9! Good flick!
Yea this was a late 90s contractors wet dream. Go in to put down some tile. Oh no u got asbestos linoleum. Here's ur new bill, and my new Dodge 3500 4 door diesel pickup. Made allot of money off of people's fear of this stuff. Even when u tell them if u leave it alone it won't cause any problems people still tweak out and want it gone at any cost. And IT COSTS lemme tell u!
@@sid2112 Truth👍
@@TrapperAaron To have even a partial business ownership in the removal of asbestos and mold back then 🤑
10:50 easy to cut and drill. wonderful idea and good to know.
I am sold, I‘ll line my walls with it.
If you need to cut or drill it, drench it with water first.
Whenever a TV commercial comes on to tout its product being _natural_ to imply that it is safe for use or consumption, I always talk back to the TV to say: "Lead and *asbestos* are also natural products!"
it is natural !
I was about to say this. But I say asbestos and uranium
Along with nicotine and malathion.
the TV can hear you
@@b43xoit my brain read a similar looking word that started with M.
* many humans were harmed in the making of this film.
* many humans were harmed in the making of this world.
I never knew it was such a miracle product. Too bad that our feeble airsacks can’t handle it.
Well yeah, generally getting anything rough in our bodies has the effect you'd expect. But the wisest people know how to use it while minimizing risk. Too bad most people just want to pretend thier invincible to danger becasue they read too many glory stories and thus the stuff has to be banned. I feel if used today, people would probably deliberately scratch and sniff it like the "Covid parties" teens held and other stupid things like that.
@jasm.5823 when you look closely at it, tobacco actually has a lot of beneficial attributes too.
No a miracle if it kills you
Thats why its still being used
*Feeble airsacks*
Now I understand why this was everywhere
It was really a super-substance for insulation and fire resistance.
In the uk there are/were about 3000 different building products that contained asbestos
This is like watching a horror movie in many ways. I can see why it was so popular, but it is scary how it was (and maybe still is) everywhere. I can feel the mesothelioma through my screen.
If every employee died from asbestos I think they would have outlawed it sooner. Do we even know what precentage of asbestos workers died from exposure?
"We didn't get to take a vacation, the lunch break at the asbestos factory, was my vacation" Jarrod Benson
When working in a metal fab plant, my company asked me to be lowered by forklift in huge annealing oven. It was lined with asbestos bricks, at least 50 years old, to do a repair. No safety equipment at all.
And you are still with us.
A confined space work environment. Air monitoring and supply, medical evac planned, stand by team for extraction, and whatever else I forgot from when I read the new standards.
I'd be more worried about working in an oven, hoping somebody wasn't hungover that day. Every so often somebody gets trapped and cooks to death in a food factory.
By the 1970s when this promo was made the asbestos industry was fully aware of the harm it could do the lungs of humans. But continued to make the case there was no alternative.
Those poor people working in that textile factor or those guys drilling and sawing the sheets. This is when the asbestos was most likely to get inhaled and remain in the lungs. A ticking bomb for lung cancer.
Many people involved in the asbestos industry like the workers lagging the ship pipes featured in this video. They never got any compensation for the crippling lung cancer as they died before they got justice. The industry knew all to well how dangerous the fibres were when airborne and provided very little protection for workers.
@@stephenellis3430 Just sad how through the entire last century people sitting comfy in thier chairs would condemn so many people to their deaths and then take all credit for victory or cover up their deaths for failure. And in the turn of the millenium, the only thing that remained are even more people sitting comfy in their chairs wishing others would suffer cause they're bored.
Yep, they absolutely knew way back in the 1930's that it could cause cancers. The children who mined it seldom lived to 35 years old. I read the case history of the trial. @@stephenellis3430
When a better alternative to fiberglass is developed, there will be more billion dollar lawsuits.
Well -- I'm sold. I'll be getting my walls filled and my pipes lined by Friday. Just have to find a vendor...
I worked on the JohnsManville house.
It was balloon framed and poured full of vermiculite from the attic to the basement.
Makes me think of Bart Simpson campaigning for class president with the chant: "More asbestos! More asbestos!"
This stuff really is a great building product, exept for its tendency to kill you.
Fortunately it only tends to be aggressive towards the builders and eventual dismantlers of the building. As long as you don’t poke the dragon she keeps you safe. If you have asbestos in your house and it’s in a place where you never need to touch it, I would always leave it in situ, and possibly make a note of its presence to be passed on to future inhabitants.
Didn't kill most who were exposed to it.
Very useful, just don't breathe!
Or do, then it'll even help you to stop breathing!
This is prolly the only video ive ever seen that effectively demonstrates just how much asbestos was used everywhere. But seeing the kids play in the pool area constructed with asbestos hits pretty hard.
In the 1960's We had in grades 3.4.5.Powdered Abestos in our classrooms 😮 Add some water Mix it up in your hands 🙌 To make a paste for art class Making toys Houses 🏘 & dolls 🪆 After drying we would paint 🎨 them..Then take our art work home to show 🤗 Mom 👩
That's horrifying
And who can forget eating Asbestos-Frosted Flakes? They're Grrrrrrrrruesome!
You just dredged back a memory of mine of doing the exact same thing in the late 60s. It was dark grey fibrous stuff.
We had our home insulated with Asbestos in the 70's when I was just a kid. I watched them pump it into our walls. Immediately after our house was filled with a haze of asbestos floating everywhere, for months and months. It looked like floating snow. When I would watch tv in the dark I'd see the air filled with floating particles. My eyes would be burning. My mom was adversely affected and had to stay outside the house for awhile. I'm approaching 60 and am essentially healthy. I do have some health issues but not sure if it's related.
See, it's not as bad as people say.
@@dr.danchallice3888 hey, I have a question… Am I going to hell for laughing uncontrollably at your response?
Get checked. It is free. You could be in line for some money from the fund set up for asbestos victims. Relatives of asbestos workers are now getting damage awards.
Yes, but find a lawyer who doesn't have a TV commercial about it!@@billsimpson604
Please get checked out
It could save your life if there is anything
This weekend I’m wearing my asbestos shirt!!
After watching this not-at-all biased film brought to you by the Asbestos Information Committee, I am convinced. Why are we not using this miracle material everywhere?
Cause no one in this country knows how to think for themselves, so 90% of people would either freak the f8ck out at the mentioning of the name, or deliberately try to kill people with it. Just can't have nice things
@jasonsvendsen3917 wanna buy a cheap house?
It's a Conspiracy by Big Health to sell more Life.
Besides, fiberglass costs more and will eventually be shown to be just as dangerous.
Next: "The Wonders of Uranium at Home" by the British Nuclear Board (1951).
In the US, there were some that touted that domiciles could have their own nuclear power electric generators as a means to power the homes.
I’m a big fan of radium water myself! 😂
Fascinating! Thanks for posting
When I was growing up in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, every single suburban home had corrugated asbestos cement fences and lots of buildings had asbestos walls and roofs. I wonder what happened to them. What replaced asbestos for fire resistance? Is it still used for bearings?
Fibre cement. So just different fibres than asbestos
They recently banned it in brake pads in the USA. That was about the last use of it here. It was all over homes in the USA too. The subdivision I grew up in had asbestos cement roofing shingles. It is not dangerous unless you inhale it. Problem is, sawing it releases some of the fibers. They used to cover exterior walls of homes with asbestos siding in New Orleans. The stuff will last forever if nothing hits it and breaks the shingles.
As far as fire, all new commercial buildings above a certain small size, and all high rise buildings in the USA need to be sprinkled. Old buildings, like the New Orleans City Hall which I worked in, built in 1954, had to have sprinklers installed. It was full of asbestos which was eventually removed. A new City Hall is being planned. You might see my old 25 year, home away from home next year, because the 2025 NFL Super Bowl will be played in the Caesars Superdome on 9 February, 2025. You can see the huge dome across Poydras Street from City Hall. The edge of that dome roof is a lot steeper than it looks. I moved to Slidell after the Katrina flooding.
I got mesothelioma just from watching this video
Yup, this stuff is so dangerous, I got ill just reading your comment. Please wrap your comment in an asbestos proof word bag. Thanks.
I was thinking that after seeing the part where its being processed in the raw and flying through the air lol.
I'm coughing up my lung as we speak, and I haven't finished the darn video yet.
At least they had the sense not to make things out of tobacco in those days 👀
😭😂🤣😭😂😭😂😂😭🤣😭
my dad brought the raw rock back from work, we played with it pulling fibers off which was cool.
You should get checked out
It’s free and it could save your life if something is wrong
@@FoxOnFilm2209 There is no saving anybody...
@@Katchi_ if lung cancer where to develop its best to catch it early be fore it becomes inoperable
Wow they really had this stuff in everything back then. I know the main use was for pipe insulation in cellars, but didnt realize just how wide spread it was.
My grandparent's house was built in the 60's. Asbestos cement siding, asbestos sheeting on the door between the garage and house, asbestos floor tiles, asbestos pipe and ductwork insulation.
When I was a mechanic, I had to take care with brake dust. Even in the mid 90’s some cars still had asbestos in the brake and clutch linings. I didn’t know it was used in gaskets..
I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. They started shifting brake pads over to non-asbestos, and everybody (mechanics, aircraft owner/mechs, parts shops etc) started hoarding asbestos pads cause they just worked better.
Chinese cars used asbestos in brake linings and gaskets are recently as the mid 2010s. Great Wall and Chery were the biggest culprits.
If It's too good to be true, then it usually is.
Dorms at my college had sprayed asbestos in the ceilings. One summer around 1987 they sealed it all in some kind of spray sealant. Guys used to bounce golf, tennis, basketballs off it. Surprised we don’t all have lung cancer.
Those buildings all razed 20 years ago now.
Tick tick tick
My high school had that. We used to try to get pencils to stick in it. The worst was the gym locker room. We used to throw sneakers and wet towels up at the ceiling an that asbestos fluff would come down in clumps.
A brand-new grade school I attended for a year or so in the 70s had a super-thick version of a popcorn ceiling. The whole school was open plan, with the library in the middle up a short flight of stairs. The taller kids could just reach the ceiling coating from the stairs, where the ceiling angled down, and we all took turns poking at it. We were surprised because it looked soft and fluffy, but felt like styrofoam. It was probably full of asbestos. We were breathing fumes from leaded gasoline every time we were in a car back then, too. I forget if it was Dow or some other company whose slogan was Better Living Through Chemistry. Fun times/s
Not positive, but I think it was DuPont.@@CatMom-uw9jl
I saw a video last year (a recently made video) of a man in Cuba relining brake shoes with an asbestos-mixed substance. He was working in the Cuba-approved safety apparel: sleeveless t-shirt, brightly colored shorts and flip-flops. He seemed to enjoy cigars while working, too.
Blue collar man tough as nails
Officially, He will die from smoking, not asbestos.
But only in amurica....
In some places, Casual Friday is every day.
Of course he liked cigars while working, breathing asbestos is dangerous, the cigar is his filter!
Read "The Air That Kills", a book about the miners who mined asbestos, and paid the ultimate price.
Theses a very interesting promo video about asbestos in tarmac during the 1950s. They literally tip bag of the strands into the mixing machines by hand. Apparently it made the road last longer. But must of made so much asbestos dust as the road was used.
One day people will see videos like this about plastics and cell phones and wonder what the heck were they thinking
maybe plastic not cell phones unless you mean the crushing phycological scarring smart phones have left due to social media.
In a couple decades this video would be equally absurd: "Why you should love fossil fuels" by PragerU ua-cam.com/video/49Teja5YNCo/v-deo.html&pp=ygUfdGhlIG1vcmFsIGNhc2UgZm9yIGZvc3NpbCBmdWVscw%3D%3D
I used to play in the stuff. The old Victorian i grew up in( built in 1896)was full of it
There once was a time asbestos was used in everything. Tiling cement, ceilings, curtains, firefighters clothing, roofing, warmwaterpipeinsulation, you name it..
Nothing wrong with the material when kept incapsulated until... you feel like renovating houses built in the 50's, 60's and early 70's..
Asbestos: "I am fireproof!"
Chlorine trifluoride: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"
I wonder why UA-cam includes warnings about tobacco or alcohol but doesn't include warnings about asbestos advertising?
Nevertheless, the film is very interesting and I had no idea that asbestos was used in so many products, one could say on a massive scale.
I also found it interesting and amazed at all the different ways it could be processed, especially in liquid form, for numerous applications.
They sure made this video asbestos they could!
Good 👍
Wow! This stuff sounds great! We should use more of it!
This makes my lungs itchy.
I remember that pipe cladding, mostly from our school!
That crazy traffic at 14:28... Is that in England?
probably cali. Lmfao
Given the double decker busses I'd have to guess it's England. Surprised there's not crashes every 5 seconds in that mess.
This stuff sounds amazing! Where can I get some?
Next up, Lead Paint - Delicious, but deadly!
Is that narrated by Troy McClure?
@@broadcastmyballs I miss Phil.
Weak minded people agree.
I remember steam pipes wrapped in the stuff when I was in Kindergarten 😮
And that awful puke green paint 😂
"most of us don't notice asbestos"
20 to 50 years later depending on exposure
All natural mineral fiber that is fireproof?
They should make cigarette filters out of it.
They did, Kent Micronite from 1952-1954 contained crocidolite asbestos fibers.
" If the tar don't get you , the asbestos will "
This should be narrated by Troy McClure.
The irony of asbestos is that the exact same property that made it so effective in building materials, is also what made it so deadly (indestructible, microscopic fibers, the body can't break them down)
Wow this stuff is amazing! Where can I get my hands on this miracle rock?
Crack?
Taking a shot every time he says Asbestos might turn out healthier than the filming of this movie.
My 1880, 2 story house is completely covered with Ceramic asbestos tile siding. It's very old and painted over many times but it functions.
From just about the same time as this film two British television programmes give a very different view of asbestos. Take a look at The Dust at Acre Mill and Alice - Fight for Life. They can both be found on UA-cam.
Hindsight is 20/20
It's really a shame. It was such a useful material and cheap too.
Why Asbestos?
Because cancer!
Seriously, this came out in 1970.
Didn’t we understand by then that this stuff was hazardous to our health?
I’m cringing at all the people in this who are handling the material without protective equipment.
They knew in 1965 it was bad: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069377/
Yes we did. First noted case of asbestosis was in the 20's
Some people sick, some studies were made, some lawyers got excited and a useful material was banned.
Bro they knew the dangers of the products they marketed. They didn't care because they made money... They knew this stuff that was bad they didn't care because of greed
Yes, they did understand, and that's why there is one little sentence that's easily missed - 'Asbestos fibres are so small that we must be careful not to breathe them in' - or something. In the 60s they wouldn't have bothered with that, but by the 70s they couldn't ignore it anymore so they had to pay some lip service to the people demanding safety measures.
It actually made the materials stronger. Look at the old vinyl floor tiles how long they've lasted.
I wonder if it was ever used to make fire proof bow strings in archery in ancient wars. Its a fiber strong enough to make a bow string.
2:28 "Fibers so fine that care must be taken to avoid inhaling them". There's the rub. It is great for fireproofing, but if you inhale it you'll die. The World Trade Centers would not have collapsed had asbestos not been stopped during construction. Of course they would have been so badly damaged they may have needed to be demolished anyway. But when they did collapse the partial asbestos in building One was one of the cancer causing contaminants that got the victims and post-9/11 cleanup workers.
where can I buy some ?!
Crazy, knowing what we know now…
Everything can kill us....where's the tech to use it properly...and the smarts on how to handle it..?
"Asbestos, the rock the drowns noise" LOL
Human noise when mesothielioma snuffs yet one more person.
"endlessly divisible" .. yep, that do be a problem. 😵💫
0:33 dood all this fire is this the Hindenburg brah? 🤔
*James Hardie liked this*
Asbestos is ok to use, provided you dont breathe in asbestos dust. Lots of buildings still have asbestos tiles.
1:11 Why not?
"And if I work all day at the Blue Sky Mine..."
Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground.
Who's gonna save me?
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Don't touch that asbestos Billy, you don't know where it's been!
Omg imagine walking into a mill weaving asbestos 💀😮
Most workers were fine.
Just one small problem with it!!
More asbestos , More asbestos.........
It was also used a lot wherever they needed fiber reinforcement. Cement pipe, cement roofing/siding, asphalt shingles/roofing, floor tiles, and even asphalt roads.
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2:30 They knew even then it was dangerous!
This is wild.
Still in use today there are things that can't have anything but.
Ahhh Asbestos, just what you need on a Sunday...... oh that's Bisto, sorry my mistake.
Pulled up a room full of asbestos tile a while back, didn't know it was asbestos until afterwards. Probably took 10 years off my life.
Same..
Asbestos is the wonder material of modern technology.
Wow this stuff is AMAZING lets put it in everything!
Woah what's with this cough that wont go away?🤒🤒🤒
April Fool, but it's educational.
I use it every day on my toast . Tastes great.
Well, that aged well.
RIP the camera man that died in strange circumstances .
They keep remarking on its “mysterious” and “strange” properties.
I feel like anything that’s still deemed strange or mysterious shouldn’t be mass-exploited yet.
It’s perfectly safe unless you disturb it and make it into dust.
If only there was a way to permanently bond the fibers with no possibility that they could be cut or otherwise distubed and enter the lungs.
I used to huff asbestos and spray paint in the 70's.
They're really driving home the idea that asbestos = safety in this video. It looks like this film came out in 1970. With public awareness about the dangers and increasing government regulations since then the demand and use has only gone down. U.S. consumption of asbestos peaked in 1973 at 804,000 tons. The peak world demand for asbestos was around 1977. The U.S. in 2023 only consumed approximately 150 tons of chrysotile asbestos.
Why has the video upload have added atrifical black speckles flashing the whole way through?
It confuses the copyright bots
One thing this otherwise excellent film doesn’t mention, is that Asbestos is also an excellent thing to stub your cigar out on. And, while I’m at it, nothing makes a bacon sandwich taste better than to eat it off a slab of Uranium. Adds a pleasant tingle that’s best gotten rid of with a lot of alcohol and caffeine.
Finally we give asbestos a break
I was waiting for the announcement of asbestos dummies for children....the wonder material!
Call now for your free Mesothelioma handbook. Operators are dying by.
You can almost feel the mesothelioma....