JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 JH> Over the years, asbestos was used in a large number of ways in the
 JH> building construction industry.

It sure was.  We had that stuff to mess with in one shop class in school, 
as I recall,  in both fairly thin sheets (sorta like cardboard) and in
quarter-inch thick chunks,  which could be drilled and things scrwed to
them.

A friend of mine had an apartment where the stove was right next to the
refrigerator.  There was a time when he went out and got a sheet of that
stuff to stick between them,  so his running the oven wouldn't overload the
fridge...

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