"Malcolm" <sweet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:52:17 +0100, "Tony Brooks"
> <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Bramble-Stick" <biffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:xggOh.18040$B37.1147@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Hi,
>>> Our Elysian 27 (c.1963) has flexible heating ducting installed - don't
>>> know the history. I'm thinking of installing an Eberspacher unit, but
>>> given the vintage, I wonder if anyone knows the materials which might
>>> have
>>> been used for the ducting, and whether it may be asbestos based - its
a
>>> sort of cardboardy colour.
>>> Thanks for any info,
>>> Bramblestick
>>>
>>
>>I installed a number of hot air type heaters on the hire fleet around
that
>>time and the ducts were very similar to car heater ducts that were in
use.
>>
>>All of them were cardboard with either a middle metalic layer (crimped)
>>or
>>a metal spring. WE also had all metal ones, but that is not what you
>>describe. The cardboard ones usually were black on the outside and
>>cardboard
>>colour on the inside.
>
> Truma use the same kind of stuff today, fawn in colour. Maybe the
> ducting was put in fairly recently? Either way I doubt very much if it
> was asbestos based.
>
Many thanks for the replies. The ducting is certainly fawn coloured. I
intend taking a closer look to see if there are any id marks. Probably a
bit
paranoid, but the stuff seems to have been used in all kinds of
applications
during the 60s & the idea of blowing fibres around seems to warrent some
thought.
Cheers,
Bramble Stick
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