No comment beyond past comments - less about the
wire, more about the silverly particals floating about as you sweep the floor or move about in the
catwalk of concern for me. Whips, a lot less
asbestos about them than a pipe,. on the other
hand none, less a concern but not a 911 concern.
As said before, cut and bag the whips
plug and all, than cut and bag what you can from what's left with protection... Whats left in
fixture is minor with
asbestos or wiring and easy to dispose of safely without requiring a new lighting inventory.
Me, I'm more woried about the dust in the air than the
fixture whips. This all given any cancer you might have been exposed to potentially most likely is ten years from now and you like I 15 years ago when I was wiring fixtures with a spool of
asbestos heat
wire I found back
stage... one doesn't know but one does do better with time. Would I use fixtures with
asbestos whips these days - this given years of using them or removing and bagging them?
Were I doing a show, I think I would require
asbestos abatement by a professional before I did the show or touched the lights upon seening them. My health ain't worth further exposure to
asbestos. This given the
house such fixtures already has that dust in it and even if the
fixture whips were changed, the already fallen off paticles - the more dangerous part of it is now in the air is a risk hard to abate short of closing down the place and paying large bucks to clean up.
Still though, yea I could deal with
asbestos whips - mostly upon sight getting a bag around the
whip and cutting if off into the bag, than dealing with the insides seperately with protection. Fixtures are easy, me I'm more worried about crawling about in a
grid and seeing silvery flakes to the dust I stur up.
Doubt I would design at a theater with as
asbestos whips, nor at a theater without flame trated scenic elements or safe plugs. Still though that's me these days and not me from the past.
I did seemingly survive the exposure while replacing bad
asbestos whips for new
asbestos whips and all the dust in the
grid over the years. That said, might not have - its a chance of yes or no with one, amount of exposure and a chance. These days, I don't work on
stage and say when someone brings me their
fixture they got from school and it's got an
asbestos whip on it, I tell them than bag and trash it before discussing any resale price or wiring advice on it. Got
thru the mail a box spot that was also
asbestos, long gone in simple enough to remove upon site.
That said, communication is necessary. One don't just go bagging and trashing upon site someone else's property - you first communicate than either do so or walk away. If a number of fixtures and or whips to trash, don't remove them, get protection for yourself in trashing in placce.
Anyway some thoughts.