Documents in our library describe Super-light (Philip Carey) as “block and pipe covering”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 600 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Super-light (Philip Carey) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.
Label: Super-Light 85% Magnesia Pipe Covering (Carey)Label or package · ACL Doc 15071
Advertisement: Carey Super-Light Cement (The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company) and 2 other productsAdvertisement · ACL Doc 15259
Product photograph: Pipe Insulation (Carey) and 2 other productsProduct photograph · ACL Doc 15173
Label: Carey Super-Light 85% Magnesia Pipe Covering (Philip Carey Mfg. Co.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20273
Packaging: Carey pipe covering cartons and chrysotile bag (Carey)Label or package · ACL Doc 20723
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Super-light (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Temperature limit: “Atmos to 600”, p. 801
- Description: “Composed of not less than 85% by volume of hydrated magnesium carbonate and the balance of asbestos fibers. Relatively soft. Absorbant, will soften when wet. Rigid.”, p. 801
- Asbestos content: “Magnesium Carbonate and Asbestos”, p. 801
- Form: “Block and Pipe Covering”, p. 801
Kind of product
We list Super-light (Philip Carey) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Boilermakers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Philip Carey (26)
Careytemp · Careycel · 19 Hitemp · Aircel · 85 Magnesia · Hightemp #12 · Hightemp #15 · Impervo · Insulation Seal 820 · Lennolite · Multi-Ply · Precision-molded · Super-Light 85% Magnesia · Temp-check · Tempcheck · Alltemp · Asbestos Paper · Asbestos Sponge · Carey Cal-silicate · Careytemp 2000 · and 6 more on the company's page
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (250)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · Standard Sectional Covering (Johns-Manville) · Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Super Cell (Ruberoid) · Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Super Insutape (Unarco) · Super Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Super Unibestos (Unarco) · Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) · Superex-1900 (Johns-Manville) · Superex-m (Johns-Manville) · Superex-sg (Johns-Manville) · Therm-o-bestos (Johns-Manville) · Therm-O-Flake (Illinois Clay Products) · Thermalite (Keene) · Thermalite 85% Magnesia (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · and 230 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other insulating cement and coatings by Philip Carey (26)
100 · 707 · 19 Vitircel · 303 · 7M · Fibrous Adhesive · Hightemp #12 · LF 20 · MW 1 · Mw-40 · Mw-50 · Super 606 · Super-Light Cement · Tempcheck · Vitricel · Vitricel 10 · 303 Asbestos Cement · 707 Insulating Cement · 85 Magnesia · A-1 · and 6 more on the company's page
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (298)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Super 48 (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Super 711 (Combustion Engineering) · Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Super Finish (Combustion Engineering) · Super Powerhouse (Keene) · Super Stic-tite (Combustion Engineering) · Superex Cement (Johns-Manville) · Superex Cement for Navy (Johns-Manville) · Superex-m (Johns-Manville) · Swetcheck (Eagle-Picher) · T-60 (Combustion Engineering) · Temp-Sure I-c 250 (Insul-Coustic) · Thermalcoat (M. H. Detrick) · Thermalite (Keene) · and 278 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- Philip Carey: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Philip Carey on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
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