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Old August 15th 07, 06:58 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Frosty
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I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?
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Old August 15th 07, 06:59 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Peter W.. Rowe,
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:58:26 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Frosty
wrote:

I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


who are you trying to kill? There are quicker and easier means...

:-)
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Old August 15th 07, 04:23 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
ted frater
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Frosty wrote:
I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


hi Frosty, Where to buy it?
Probably a heating /steam boiler installer
Any chance of telling us what you want it for?
Ive plenty here in several forms,
woven and hard sheets, a pair of old asbestos gloves from woven cloth. etc
We Dont throw anything away.
As you may recall im in the UK and If I wanted some asbestos
insulation off steam pipes i go to one of our local ship yards and
trade some beer with a ships rigger for some.
Your going to have to find some place thats got some and who has it,
to let you have some .

One thing I forgot to mention last time I posted about asbestos, was
we had a big clearout of several old caravans last year, in one of
these I had stored a large quantity of the insulating suspended ceiling
panels. 3ft by 2ft.
In the big fire we had to burn up all the old wood etc, I put several of
these sheets on top of the fire.
Now to my surprise they didnt burn, they insulated the fire to an
extrodinary degree and eventually after ablout half an our crumbled away.
Now my guess is that these sheets are a mixture of glass fibre and
cement in an open pore form. there quite light and meant to be
insulating as well as fire proof, and its easy to cut and break up.
Ive not had a moment to run some trials with it.

It depends on where you are but try your yellow pages for suspended
ceiling installers. If you can find some of this material it might just
be a solution to what ever you plan to use the asbestos powder for.
Keep us posted
Ted.
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Old August 15th 07, 04:23 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
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Peter W.. Rowe, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:58:26 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Frosty
wrote:

I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


who are you trying to kill? There are quicker and easier means...

:-)

He does as bestos he can.
:-)
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Old August 15th 07, 04:23 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
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Peter W.. Rowe, wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:58:26 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Frosty
wrote:

I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


who are you trying to kill? There are quicker and easier means...

:-)

....and which also reminds me,

Around '67 I had a sculpture professor named Bernie Lemmel who got it into
his thick turnip that he wanted his class to make sculptures from concrete mixed
with asbestos, using the asbestos to make it more modelable.

You could get loose asbestos in lumber yards back then.
So, the air in the sculpture room became a hazy mess -- people
pouring powdered asbestos, mixing it with concrete and water with big paddles.
I was the only one who seemed convinced that there might be a problem,
and moved all my work outdoors and downwind. I often wonder what happened
to the hundreds of people who went through his classes.



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Old August 15th 07, 04:23 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
William Black
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"Frosty" wrote in message
news
I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


The same place that sells the gear for mercuric gilding...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.



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Old August 16th 07, 09:48 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Frosty
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In rec.crafts.jewelry almost on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:23:11 -0700 a
smoke signal from Ted Frater rang out, which
was heard to say :

Frosty wrote:
I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


hi Frosty, Where to buy it?
Probably a heating /steam boiler installer
Any chance of telling us what you want it for?


Sure!
I used to buy it in a small cardboard w/metal lid to mix with water to
form a paste.
It makes a really great heat sink which one can use when soldering on
jewelry.
I'd pack it around emeralds, garnets, and amethysts, solder quick (I
use oxy/ace) and there's no problems.

The form it was in looked like that stuff you sometimes find inside of
padded envelopes.

I've plenty here in several forms,
woven and hard sheets, a pair of old asbestos gloves from woven cloth. etc
We Don't throw anything away.


I also used to get it in sheets, rolled, about 30cm wide.
I like the powdered better.

As you may recall im in the UK and If I wanted some asbestos
insulation off steam pipes i go to one of our local ship yards and
trade some beer with a ships rigger for some.
Your going to have to find some place thats got some and who has it,
to let you have some .


Thanx!
We're the "land of the free" and our government doesn't trust us to
guard our own health...
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Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!
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Old August 16th 07, 09:48 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Frosty
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In rec.crafts.jewelry almost on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:23:31 -0700 a
smoke signal from "William Black" rang
out, which was heard to say :


"Frosty" wrote in message
news
I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


The same place that sells the gear for mercuric gilding...


No, they don't have it.
I get that he http://www.unitednuclear.com/ along with my uranium
and heavy water.

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Old August 16th 07, 04:27 PM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Jim
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:23:23 -0700, mbstevens
discovered a keyboard and, for our
edification and amusement, submitted

I often wonder what happened
to the hundreds of people who went through his classes.


Probably something rather similar to what happened to many of my old
colleagues involved in the preparation of the investment material for
the lost-wax casting process. In those days we couldn't even spell
"silicosis", much less worry about it. Several of my friends died -
one even surviving for several years with just one lung...

Blessed be, for sure...
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Old August 17th 07, 01:43 AM posted to rec.crafts.jewelry
Abrasha
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William Black wrote:
"Frosty" wrote in message
news
I want some.
In powdered form.
Anyone know where I can purchase some?


The same place that sells the gear for mercuric gilding...


You need no "gear" for that. Only Mercury and fine powdered gold, to
make the gold amalgam. And a wire brush to apply the amalgam.

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