A Must Have For Any Real Pipe Smoker.

[danielplainview]

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[derekflint]

What year was that?

 

[mso489]

Lesson one in public health environmental health sciences, every trusted material in common use is not safe.

 

[mikethompson]

Yikes!
I know asbestos isn't safe when broken up, but I not taking any chances with it in my pipe!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Isn't meerschaum often found with asbestos?

 

[jazz]

The cost of learning.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Really, not all asbestos is dangerous. I buy asbestos for several applications for my foundry for metals, and also the soldering pads that I use at my bench are asbestos. I believe it is a frayed fiber loose asbestos that is illegal now, going on a conversation I had with a distributor years ago. But yeh, why risk it in a pipe, especially when they can just use graphite to more easily make pipes, ha ha. The worst burn I have ever gotten was when I tried a new soldering pad product made of graphite. It actually caught my workbench on fire, and when I tried to push it off the bench, it was hotter than the piece I was soldering. I believe that was when I had the conversation with the distributor about the wonderfulness of asbestos, ha ha.

 

[seacaptain]

Those are from Jackson's Mesothelioma line of pipes.

 

[Civil War]

ROLF :rofl:

 

[ashdigger]

I own one those pipes. I'll have to post a picture of it. I bought it because I deal with asbestos almost every day at fire scenes. I know asbestos dangers are real and I also see how much money is scammed from the system for remediation.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I found this pic on the web a couple of years ago, and no, I didn't buy it. 8O