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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-04-2002 07:59 AM
I'll offer an opinion here.Unless required by law...KEEP your asbestoes coverd wire. It is the safest DC cabling I know...it will not catch fire or melt. If you have it covered up in greenfield (or liquidtite) it doesn't pose a casual contact hazard. I've actually seen potental fires stopped by the stuff. The asbestoes scare was a bit over the top. Sure, in enough quantity and breathing it there is a serious health hazard but in some applications, it's benefits far outweight it's risks. I truely believe more people will die from the lack of asbestoes than the harm it posed. Like any potentially hazardous substance, it's use should have been based on need and benefits vs it's potential danger. An asbestoes cable covered up isn't going to harm you. Any fiberous substance has the potential to cause lung problems. I'm sure that before I changeover...er pass on...that Fiberglass will come under fire for silicousus. Steve ------------------
"Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 06-04-2002 08:40 PM
Those asbestos covered hi-amp, low-voltage cables can carry a heavy load while remaining cool because they contained multi-strand copper wires, each one fine but so many that any heat was dissipated easily and the cable ran with near zero resistance. But before reusing, check with an ohm meter or bend them throughout their length. If not extremely flexible, the copper has been damaged and its resistance will be high enough to produce more heat than light. I've made emergency repairs cutting out the damaged lengths. But I'd agree,
wrapping to contain asbestos particles is a wise health move.
Gerard........................................................ One time, in 'jection Camp,
I stuck a flute in a lamphouse
and blew the circuit, Breaker.
-..... Flute stuck in LampHouse
Haunting notes stream through darkness
Reflected from silver screen.
-Ono Basho Can her lamphouse
Auto-detect silver flute
From my eternal lamp...?
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-05-2002 04:33 AM
They came and did an asbestos abatement in my theatre -- created a sealed environment with negative air pressure and all and when the dust all settled (literally), the had created more of a hazard than before anything was touched. Another company had to come in and do it all over again. IN all that, none of the surveyors who spec-ed out the building every mentioned the Peerless lamphouse wire -- sitting there as it has done for the last few decades, not hurting anyone. I don't sniff it; I don't chew on it, and I don't even recall coming into direct contact with it very often. If it makes you a little nervous, just wrap electrical tape around it -- although THAT probably would be more contact with it than you would get in 20 years of normal operation.Also, remember the scare they sent out a few years back where they were cautioning everyone about the dangers of electical radiation exposure and that even using electric blankets could cause cancer. Supposidely people who worked in high energy environments were at risk? Well, for years I worked a booth that had two big Knisley rectifiers right in this very smallish booth with us; we used to use them as a table -- we'd sit at these things all day long, eating, reading, while they hummed away, happily radiating all that electrical energy right at our brains when we were sitting AT them, and at our gonads when we were sitting ON them. That was 30 years ago -- so far so good.
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