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      03-23-2024, 06:55 PM   #7745
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Sorry to hear. I’d say that and lead paint could be removed from that list and it would still be a solid list.
Asbestos pads under the Bunsen burners in elementary school classrooms in the 1950's...

Since we encountered asbestos in various places on campus, I was required to take a 5 day asbestos supervisor course at the university I worked at. It sure made a believer out of me. That is some bad $hit!
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Asbestos pads under the Bunsen burners in elementary school classrooms in the 1950's...

Since we encountered asbestos in various places on campus, I was required to take a 5 day asbestos supervisor course at the university I worked at. It sure made a believer out of me. That is some bad $hit!
I did asbestos abatement for a few years in the late 80's and early 90's. Nasty stuff for sure. I always wore a full faced powered respirator. But some of the clowns I worked with would leave their passive respirators dangling around their necks while they smoked as they were ripping asbestos. Damn fools. I had chest xrays every year up until a few years ago. I figure after 30 years of being away from it, I'm probably safe now.
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I did asbestos abatement for a few years in the late 80's and early 90's. Nasty stuff for sure. I always wore a full faced powered respirator. But some of the clowns I worked with would leave their passive respirators dangling around their necks while they smoked as they were ripping asbestos. Damn fools. I had chest xrays every year up until a few years ago. I figure after 30 years of being away from it, I'm probably safe now.
Those guys were damn fools. Smoking and asbestos? Moronic. Wonder how they’re doing now? Hopefully okay. Can’t say they didn’t know any better, at least about the asbestos, that’s what the respirators were for.

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I did asbestos abatement for a few years in the late 80's and early 90's. Nasty stuff for sure. I always wore a full faced powered respirator. But some of the clowns I worked with would leave their passive respirators dangling around their necks while they smoked as they were ripping asbestos. Damn fools. I had chest xrays every year up until a few years ago. I figure after 30 years of being away from it, I'm probably safe now.
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Those guys were damn fools. Smoking and asbestos? Moronic. Wonder how they’re doing now? Hopefully okay. Can’t say they didn’t know any better, at least about the asbestos, that’s what the respirators were for.
Still remember what an Instructer in one our Logistics Management Classes would stress, "Leave Nothing to Chance". Looking back, I should applied that to many decisiions in my life.
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AMC AMX......originals came with just a package tray instead of a back seat. So it was a "two seater" sports car. Pretty quick with the 390 V8.
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Right Corporation...you're in the family, but completely different model.
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AMC AMX......originals came with just a package tray instead of a back seat. So it was a "two seater" sports car. Pretty quick with the 390 V8.
Right!! Standard engine was 290ci and optional was the more potent 390ci. They were in direct competition with the Corvette from 68-70.
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Ah yes, the Javelin was an offshoot of the AMX.
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Still remember what an Instructer in one our Logistics Management Classes would stress, "Leave Nothing to Chance". Looking back, I should applied that to many decisiions in my life.
We all probably have said this, you're definitely not alone.
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Well, at least I'm upright today.

To add insult to injury, I have to go for a deep cleaning of HALF my mouth this morning. Dentist said he/I would need a break, so split it into 2 sessions.

I hadn't been to dentist since before COVID
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Have them give you some nitrous. Will help relax you, big boy.
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Have them give you some nitrous. Will help relax you, big boy.
Instead, I simply left fingerprints where I was gripping the arms of the chair. I have to check when I get home, but pretty sure the needle into the bottom jaw came out the back of my head.
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Instead, I simply left fingerprints where I was gripping the arms of the chair. I have to check when I get home, but pretty sure the needle into the bottom jaw came out the back of my head.
The needle was for novocaine, right? So was it really that bad?

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Have them give you some nitrous. Will help relax you, big boy.
Or Diazepam (valium) which is what I’ll be on Thursday for an extraction. (hope it works!)
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Or Diazepam (valium) which is what I’ll be on Thursday for an extraction. (hope it works!)
When I had a tooth extracted I went to an oral surgeon who knocked me out. My dentist referred me.
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The needle was for novocaine, right? So was it really that bad?
Scarred, probably for life, I tell ya.


Yes, I am a He-UUUGGE baby. I reminded them when I sat down that I was allergic to needles. They paid me about as much attention as my wife.
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When I was a starving college student in 1972-73 I got a construction job to augment my VA payments. It was with a building insulation company working on a new hospital. The insulation material was something called Zonolite made by W. R. Grace and Co. It was a dry dusty material that came in bags. This would be added to water in a mixer, and then dumped into a powerful pump which then sent the mix through a long hose to where a worker would shoot it onto the structural steel of the building.

No one ever mentioned the word asbestos, and I certainly had never heard of its danger at the time. Turns out Zonolite was nearly pure asbestos. My job was to operate the mixer and the pump, and tear open the bags and achieve the proper consistency of the mix before dumping it into the hopper of the pump. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust all day and my clothes were covered with it. Thank God I had the common sense to figure out that breathing in this stuff was not a good idea, so I would take a deep breath and hold it before tearing open a bag and dumping it, and would not breath until the cloud had blown away. When I got home I would take off all my clothes in the yard (we had no neighbors) and would beat everything out of them that I could. Never the less I had to have inhaled some of it over time.

I did not hear about the danger of asbestos until about 5 years later, and worried from time to time for years if I was going to come down with asbestosis. It hasn't happened yet so I figure I'm good. I do consider myself very lucky though.
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When I had a tooth extracted I went to an oral surgeon who knocked me out. My dentist referred me.
He said it shouldn’t be as bad as when he removed remnants of roots from another tooth last December (without the Diazepam). It’ll be numb so shouldn’t hurt but I get tensed up and had a big problem with TMJ pain for weeks after that procedure. So trying to avoid that type of collateral damage but don’t think I need full unconscious. Guess I’ll find out soon enough.
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When I was a starving college student in 1972-73 I got a construction job to augment my VA payments. It was with a building insulation company working on a new hospital. The insulation material was something called Zonolite made by W. R. Grace and Co. It was a dry dusty material that came in bags. This would be added to water in a mixer, and then dumped into a powerful pump which then sent the mix through a long hose to where a worker would shoot it onto the structural steel of the building.

No one ever mentioned the word asbestos, and I certainly had never heard of its danger at the time. Turns out Zonolite was nearly pure asbestos. My job was to operate the mixer and the pump, and tear open the bags and achieve the proper consistency of the mix before dumping it into the hopper of the pump. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust all day and my clothes were covered with it. Thank God I had the common sense to figure out that breathing in this stuff was not a good idea, so I would take a deep breath and hold it before tearing open a bag and dumping it, and would not breath until the cloud had blown away. When I got home I would take off all my clothes in the yard (we had no neighbors) and would beat everything out of them that I could. Never the less I had to have inhaled some of it over time.

I did not hear about the danger of asbestos until about 5 years later, and worried from time to time for years if I was going to come down with asbestosis. It hasn't happened yet so I figure I'm good. I do consider myself very lucky though.
My Dad's father would do boiler insulation as a side gig. My Dad told me of times he and his brother would make "snowballs" out of the asbestos slurry and throw them at each other.

There are towns outside asbestos mines where the instances of cancer and asbestosis are no higher than a normal town. And then there are towns near mines where the incidents are really high. A lot depends on the type of asbestos. Some is worse than others. I have a piece of the Berlin wall safely wrapped in plastic because it contains asbestos. Not taking any chances.
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