From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 14:20:33 PST
I heard that a Dutch collector who used to work on luminous watches and
speedos died recently from cancer caused by radioactive paint.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ball" <vought@msn.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] now Japanese vehicles
> Yeah and the insulation in my 69 Camaro is an asbestos base as well.
> Asbestos is everywhere even in old packing materials we open from all
these
> 1940's NOS parts.
> Which is worse for us MV vehicle collectors and restorers the Asbestos
> insulation on the armor exhausts and firewalls or the old military Radios
> and vehicle Gauges with Radium?
> Should we all be wearing Dust respirators when working around this stuff
> even when opening old parts boxes... YOU BET.
>
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Greville" <dgrev@ruralnet.net.au>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] now Japanese vehicles
>
>
> > Bill
> >
> > > 3. From a mechanical view, I have heard that they were, how do I say
> this,
> > > shabby in construction?
> >
> > I don't know if it applied to all, but the several WW 2 Jap tanks I
> > have seen were lined out on every interior surface with asbestos.
> > Would be a big job to decontaminate the thing before you could even
> > think about restoring it. EPA in the US would probably have a pink fit
> > if you tried to import something like that.
> >
> > Regards
> > Doug
> >
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> > dgrev@ruralnet.net.au
> >
> > Web Armour site at:
> >
> > http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/lsm/dhmg/index.html (UK mirror site)
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.trackpads.com/heavymetal/index.html (US mirror site)
> >
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