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Originally Posted by Kinman
... As far as clothing it was used in foundry aprons with regularity, foundry clothing could all be suspect to containing asbestos. Military clothing that could be suspect would be fire suits, before the advent of Nomex...
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Agree. Asbestos is expensive to incorporate in a woven fabric, and would only be used for fire protection clothing. Asbestos is unlikely to be found in other clothing fabrics.
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I was a Navy ship propulsion officer 1968-71, and all the steam and hot water pipes throughout the ship were covered with lagging - asbestos powder mixed to paste with water, packed around the pipes, and then spiral-wrapped with asbestos wool/paper tape, applied by workers called laggers. Clouds of dust came from laggers' spills as they worked, and months of the crew stepping on the huge steam lines in the boiler room wore deep into their lagging.