SIMMO SAYS
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My Dad, who was extremely fit to the age of 73, cut up some asbestos sheets as a favour, once, in the 1960s. He died from mesothelioma (caused by a microscopic shard of asbestos, which lies dormant in the body - perhaps for decades - until it reveals itself as cancer at a point at which it is untreatable). He died at 74.
Don't piss about with asbestos.
Sorry to hear that trueblue.
Knowledge about asbestos in the sixties was probably non existent or kept quite by the manufacturers.
I never take chances. If we do have to get pipes through the stuff,we always soak it when cutting or drilling and wear masks.