Jason F

Active Member

• Oct 21, 2012

• #1

Hello,

I may have breathed in the fibre material when cutting up my 1995 Disc 300 tdi rear muffler.

Can anyone please tell me if its:
Asbestos,
Rock wool or
Glass wool.

 

timtheenchanteruk

Well-Known Member

• Oct 21, 2012

• #2

95, wont be asbestos.

 

Glb8686

Active Member

• Oct 23, 2012

• #3

Don't matter now if you've already had a gob full lol.

 

Jason F

Active Member

• Oct 27, 2012

• #4

You are right, I checked with land Rover they advised glass wool. I understand that the lungs can dissolve glass wool so I may survive to do the next stupid thing.

 

West Slope Rover

Well-Known Member

• Oct 27, 2012

• #5

Jason F said:

You are right, I checked with land Rover they advised glass wool. I understand that the lungs can dissolve glass wool so I may survive to do the next stupid thing.

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That's how I've gotten through life.

 

V8jon

Well-Known Member

• Oct 27, 2012

• #6

Look on the bright side.........at least you're voice will sound deeper and not as loud!

 

Jason F

Active Member

• Oct 28, 2012

• #7

I'm still feeling crook some weeks after it and still wet coughing. No point in getting scans as theres nothing they can do anyway.
I read that the sticky black soot (which was going everywhere), is highly carcinogenic. Maybe thats whats doing it ?

 

Paul D

Old, nackered 'n broke, but the Landy is fine . :)

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• Oct 28, 2012

• #8

Jason F said:

I'm still feeling crook some weeks after it and still wet coughing. No point in getting scans as theres nothing they can do anyway.
I read that the sticky black soot (which was going everywhere), is highly carcinogenic. Maybe thats whats doing it ?

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It takes a while to get **** out of the lungs, but you're right, there's little to nothing that can be done to help.

I'm an ex coal-miner and 10 years after leaving the pits I was still coughing up black stuff occasionally. It's clear now, but that's 20+ years since I left ..

If you feel it getting hard or tight or awkward to breathe, or just want to try and relax a bit, an 'old-wives' remedy is to use boiling water in a bowl or bucket, a few drops of Lavender oil, drape your head and the bowl with a towel and breathe in the steam. It does help ...