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Form Pack (Devcon)

Documents in our library describe Form Pack (Devcon) as “loose fibrous form (not braided or woven)”.1 They give it as sold from 1965.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 500 °F.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Form Pack (Devcon) in the documents, in each document's own words.

W. P. & R. S. Mars Co. Industrial Supplies, Catalog 81 (excerpt) (c. 1977)

  • Use: “Form Pack 1 — For general use, except for strong acids.”, p. 21
  • Ingredient: “long, high-quality asbestos fibers saturated with Teflon”, p. 21
  • Form: “loose fibrous form (not braided or woven)”, p. 21

Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965

  • Sold from: “called Form Pack and marketed by Devcon of Maidenhead, England”, p. 112
  • Temperature limit: “from minus 300 degrees F. to plus 500 degrees F.”, p. 112
  • Description: “A mixture of long asbestos fibres and Teflon”, p. 112
  • Description: “long asbestos, Teflon” (as of 1965), p. 793

Kind of product

We list Form Pack (Devcon) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)

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References

  1. W. P. & R. S. Mars Co. Industrial Supplies, Catalog 81 (excerpt) (January 1, 1977), p. 2.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1965, January 1965 (January 1, 1965), p. 11.
  3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 79. Not yet published in our library.

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