1950's fusebox.

[SPARTYKUS]

E54

as long as you didn't snaffle a bit & use it as chewing tobacco while you worked.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Or you could just replace the old asbestos strip with new. That was one of my shutdown jobs as an apprentice, went round with about 3 or 4 different sized rolls of white asbestos strip, to suit the fuse holder size's. Probably won't be asbestos now, but a substitute material... When you think about it and listen to all the scaremongering that goes on about the old white asbestos flash suppression strips, i should be well and truly long gone by now!!

Yep .. it's all about everything in moderation.

My Dad used asbestos to make gaskets in his job as a maintenance fitter at a chemical plant but this was not an everyday task & he servived to be 74 years old.

I used asbestos to make gaskets for model and full-sized steam locomotives in my hobby and so far am still here.

My Mother's uncle used it all day and everyday in his work as a power station lagger and he died before the age of 60.

 

[Ohmagain]

Aye well ................. they weren't made in China, Malaysia or India. They were made in Great Britain when Britain WAS Great and we actually MADE things and we made them well !!

We certainly dont make anything like we use to.... That is if we make anything at all these days

 

[Engineer54]

Yep .. it's all about everything in moderation.

My Dad used asbestos to make gaskets in his job as a maintenance fitter at a chemical plant but this was not an everyday task & he servived to be 74 years old.

I used asbestos to make gaskets for model and full-sized steam locomotives in my hobby and so far am still here.

My Mother's uncle used it all day and everyday in his work as a power station lagger and he died before the age of 60.

The thing is that the white glazed asbestos that was used for for the majority of 3036 fuse carriers as flash suppression, wasn't made of the really bad stuff which is known to be the Blue and Grey powdered asbestos. Couple that with the tiny quantities used in the old fuse boards and electricians are at the extremely low risk end of the spectrum. But you still get the odd post here, of guy's thinking they are doomed to certain death, if they pull and old 3036 fuse!! lol!!

 

[Paultrim123321]

Trouble is its not always the electricians who have a fear of removing the asbestos arc shields its the companies they work for. One of our clients are hysterical over asbestos arc shields in old rewirable fuse boards to the extent that they now have prohibition notices to work on them. We carry out EICRs and they request we issue C1 on any rewirable boards or fused isolators containing asbestos. The companies nowadays have a fear of insurance claims against from staff due to exposure to asbestos.

Mind you, I have met a chap who had contracted asbestosis during his working life at ICI. He sorry his widow received a six figure sum in compensation.

 

[Engineer54]

Sorry i don't understand that philosophy at all?? Why are there any 3036 boards still in place if they are that paranoid about arch shields being present?? lol!! Most wouldn't have a clue about 3036 fuse boards and switch fuses!! Never in my whole working career have i ever known a client/customer/company request that an electrical installation report/survey to fail!!! So i'm going to take this post with a large pinch of salt!! lol!!

 

[Paultrim123321]

They request it to ensure the upgrade work is programmed in as part of their preventative maintenance schedule immediately. They have over 600 distribution boards on site, some over 35 years old at least so as you can imagine logistically keeping track of defects requires planning and thought and its something that they request to ensure they keep the electrical installation to a satisfactory level and one they can easily maintain with modern equipment.

 

[Engineer54]

So why hasn't the maintenance manager not completed a survey of this site, of 600 odd DB's and identified those boards that requires updating?? Come to that, why is this company contracting out testing and inspection work, if they have a maintenance dept and a planned preventative maintenance system in place??

 

[Flanders]

We used to eat the flash pads For breakfast now we can't even open a board containing asbestos,If were doing an EICR we have to Give it a code 1 and if they want the board changing we get a specialist asbestos company to remove it

 

[Paultrim123321]

A vast number of the DB's fall within the amusement device industry which legally requires third party inspection and secondly their maintenance department is not sufficient in size to carry out the remaining inspection work.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

We used to eat the flash pads For breakfast now we can't even open a board containing asbestos,If were doing an EICR we have to Give it a code 1 and if they want the board changing we get a specialist asbestos company to remove it

Man o man thats crazy huh.

me & mate did a house 7 year ago- lean to was corragated asbestos. We were told it needed removing. Builder ssid bury it at bottom of garden but no we bagged it up, loaded into my mondeo, and chucked it into the councils asbestos skip in our 1/2 hour slot.

All free , and no H&SE

 

[Flanders]

According to the posters 6 electrician die every week from asbestos, had one of those tool box talks on it

 

[Engineer54]

According to the posters 6 electrician die every week from asbestos, had one of those tool box talks on it

Probably site installation electricians, that were working around laggers all day long, in the day's of abundant site Asbestos!! Certainly not from pulling rewirable fuses!! ...lol!! Misinformation being applied in the wrong context as usual...

 

[Dizzy_Maskell]

Only a complete idiot would deliberately expose themselves to asbestos, People used to drive cars without seatbelts does that mean these people would not use their seat belt.
Take a look at this: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/guidance/a33.pdf
There are others

 

[Paultrim123321]

Are you calling me a liar?

 

[Paultrim123321]

Sorry, I am referring to Engineer54.

 

[Flanders]

Thats why we just shut the door and walk away

 

[Stuuk1]

Have recovered plenty of these from many telephone exchanges and they are usually full of asbestos inserts.