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This video series does a much better job to answer your question. But in essence you pull air through a tiny filter which picks up all the particles, with that filter you then can look at it under the microscope and see if there are asbestos fibers that were picked up. czcams.com/video/i9kN-be_POA/video.htmlsi=suOk8hg8l3RYtWwg

He truly is a Silver Fox. We're glad you enjoyed it!

@@theesselchannel he’s doing great things in the construction industry 💯

Hi Joe - you can either hire an environmental consultant in your area or if you want to do it yourself … you’d need a high volume vacuum pump along with the asbestos tem or PCM cassettes. Running the air samples for about 120 minutes at 10 liters per minute for the PCM method. Let us know and we can provide some more details if needed. Otherwise you can also use low volume pumps and have them running longer per day.

No

Definitely not, onset of disease from asbestos exposure is 10-40 years. And usually depends on how bad exposure was. A small one time thing like him sniffing a rock in theory wouldn’t be a big deal. Usually exposure needs to either be massive in a short period of time, or slow and steady over years of light exposure to cause disease

that rock probably wasn't even asbestos

@@BrandonHoyt There was a documentary some time ago that said the doctors couldn't figure out why a lawyer, an office worker his entire career, got this lung disease that's related to asbestos. Turned out that he once drove a forklift in an asbestos plant, part time, for six weeks, when he was is college. 30 years later, he got sick.

@@BrandonHoyt Sniffing this rock seems to be perfectly safe. Now i wouldn't want to accidentally drop it onto something hard though.

it prob wasn't asbestos

Because the vast majority of asbestos is not harmful. There are multiple types of fibers, and it's only the small, sharp ones that are dangerous because once they get into your lungs, you can't get them back out. But most asbestos fibers are not that variety - they're much bigger, coiled up fibers that you can exhale from your lungs after inhaling them. Also, you're not going to get asbestos fibers from the rocks that asbestos is made from - those are rocks, they're not processed yet.

You are totally correct that sniffing asbestos in very limited amounts probably isn’t harmful. But many people suffered and died in places like Libby, Montana from mining natural asbestos-rock that was not processed. Also, the government has officially ruled that exposure to any amount of asbestos is hazardous. So your demonstration relates bad information at the least, and harmful information to people that want to use your demo to justify unsafe behavior. BTW-serpentinite often does contain some asbestos, but there are many other minerals in there too. That is why it is often sold as a building stone. It is not all asbestos.

Your a lunatic for rejecting the dangers of a mineral that can easily kill you

Do explain, and if you actually believe that go tell the entire town of Libby Montana your insensitive & uninformed opinion. 33% of the entire population there since the 1960’s has had documented lung abnormalities, and 15% of the entire population there as of 2005 was dead from asbestos exposure. Men, women, children, entire family trees wiped out

@@BrandonHoyt Donald Trump the former president wanted to bring asbestos back. Because he always did the biddings for the corporations. Just like his biggest legislative success was to give tax cuts to the reach, and also remove EPA laws, to protect the interests of corporations. Thank god Trump didn't succeed in that case. The bottom line, is that corporations knew how dangerous asbestos was , but paid some scientists to down play it. just like they're doing about fossil industries. The republican scotus wanted to remove all the EPA rules .

Since this is from over 5 years ago and this guy stopped posting daily 3 months ago, im presuming he passed away from sniffing that asbestos rock.

except for his appearances in multiple videos since

Probaly not

No died of cancer

@@JuniperCrossing most of the time, it takes up to 40 years for mesothelioma to develop

From what I've heard prolonged exposure is very dangerous, so years of working with this stuff. One time exposition, although probably not neutral, isn't as bad. Also, apparently body can get rid of smaller particles of it from the lungs after a decade or two.

@@PuerRidcully I'm pretty sure that it's the small particles that get lodged in the lung, the big fibers get caught in the upper parts of your lung and esophagus and are eventually coughed out or swallowed.

@@PuerRidcully huh huh h HH huh huh

I feel the same. I feel like its everywhere in everything and like this guy said, there really is no cut off date to when they quit using it. I'm a first time homeowner in a house that was estimated to be built in the 1900's and I was tearing up flooring in my dining room with old tile glued down with mastic....at the time I didn't know anything about it. Dumbass's put carpet on top of this stuff in my dining room and kitchen.

Are you still okay tho?

Hi Glenda - If the linoleum and carpet were taken out together - that is a better scenario than removing the linoleum by itself - especially using a machine. But, in this situation - if you are worried about asbestos - then best would be to have it sampled with a local company. We would suggest TEM samples so that you will know if there is asbestos fibers in the air. This is all under the assumption that the material is asbestos containing. If you can - it would be best to sample it to know for sure. Hope that helps.

@@theesselchannel last owner removed all the laminate ..they cover with the carpet..when we do the living room.they covered with laminate on the top..some laminate asbestos been removed by the last owner ...so we removed some piece and sent it for test..it's positive asbestos chrystotile asbestos 15%..I read that chrystotile asbestos is not that dangerous...need advice..thanks

lmfao

My father got diagnosed with Mesothelioma and he's now in ICU. He was a secretary - mostly working in an asbestos-isolated environment, rather then a manual worker. DO NOT MESS WITH ASBESTOS & DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE TELLING YOU THE OPPOSITE. Pray for my dad please 🥺

@@mohammedhosen696 prayers for your father 🙏… Stay there and keep the faith… My dad eventually had to go and rest with my mom because the lungs gave out without the help of intubation. He was at ICU for 6 weeks fighting till the end….

@@alexpolidoro4126 wow! 🥺 Many thanks for sharing your story. I hope they are in a better place, with better people. My dad has been in the ICU since 4 days now, and I've been with him daily. It's quite tense time for the whole family. Seeing him in that situation, intubated and weak, was "QUITE" traumatic for me . Shame on these greedy bastards polluting our environment. Both, the loss of your Dear Parents and the suffering of my father would have been preventable!!!

@@alexpolidoro4126 My Dear dad passed away today afternoon. Many thanks for your kind words, gestures and advise, as they were all timely and needed. Please, pray for my dad.

@@mohammedhosen696 My sincere condolences to you and your family. Hard to let go but in the end, you see how they suffer with this disease. Your Father right now is resting in peace. Take the time to heal & stay close to the family members during these trying times. Take good care my friend.