Documents in our library describe Type 7 (Flintkote) as “weather barrier coating”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 300 °F.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Type 7 (Flintkote) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Form: “Weather Barrier Coating”, p. 1261
- Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Fibrated)”, p. 1261
- Asbestos content: “Asphalt base clay emulsion and asbestos fibers. Filler content is varied to get desired temperature limits.”, p. 1261
- Temperature limit: “-20 to 300”, p. 1261
Kind of product
We list Type 7 (Flintkote) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Boilermakers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by Flintkote (8)
Thermalkote · C-13-A · C-19 · Decoralt Coatings · Sanded Premix · Fr-100 · Fr-200 · Fr-300
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (316)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Thermomix 720 (Johns-Manville) · Thermomix 770 (Johns-Manville) · Thermomix 810 (Johns-Manville) · Trica-mag (Crown Cork & Seal) · Trowel and Spray Grade (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Turnall (Atlas Asbestos) · Type 19 (Crown Cork & Seal) · Type M (Crown Cork & Seal) · Unicote (North American Refractories) · Utility (Combustion Engineering) · Valculite (Keene/Ehret) · Vermont Asbestos 7M (Ruberoid) · Vitramic (Ruberoid) · Vitricel (Philip Carey) · Vitricel 10 (Philip Carey) · and 296 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- Flintkote: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Flintkote on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 126.
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