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Speedlag (Raybestos-Manhattan)

Speedlag was an adhesive-impregnated asbestos lagging cloth made by Raybestos-Manhattan's Asbestos Textile Division for thermal insulation work.1 In a 1968 ad in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, R/M offered four Speedlag cloths: 18P075, napped and calendered; 10P111 and 10P140, made of Glassbestos, a glass-yarn-reinforced asbestos cloth; and 10P225, a standard weight asbestos cloth, in widths from 36 to 60 inches, with slit tapes also available.1

The ads describe the adhesive differently. The 1968 ad spoke of a combination of two adhesives that also served as fillers, so the cloth needed no sizing before painting.1 A 1970 ad said the cloth was cut and fitted, dipped in water to activate its "100% inorganic adhesive," and put in place.2 That ad offered Speedlag in two ASTM grades: Underwriters Grade, made to a federal specification, and AAA Grade, for insulation on merchant vessels covered by U.S. Coast Guard specifications.2

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Who bought it

In R/M's own sales and price records, a February 1969 price card for Porter Hayden of Baltimore lists rolls of 10P140 Glassbestos cloth, "Speedlag Treated," and a later card lists the glass-yarn-reinforced 10P111 as "type speedlag."3 In July 1971 R/M quoted the glass-yarn-reinforced 10P111, type Speedlag, among other cloths for the annual asbestos cloth needs of Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.3 A 1970 card lists 18P075 as a woven asbestos cloth "speedlag treated," and a price schedule for "Speedlag Asbestos Cloth" dated December 3, 1973 was offered to a customer for its 1974 needs.3

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Speedlag as a cloth made from 1969 to 1976 and puts its asbestos content at 65%.4

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Asbestos Magazine, 1968, July 1968

  • Description: “adhesive-impregnated asbestos lagging cloth”, p. 21
  • Ingredient: “glass-yarn-reinforced asbestos cloth (10P111 and 10P140 Glassbestos)”, p. 21
  • Use: “thermal insulation applications (lagging)”, p. 21
  • Form: “four nonmetallic cloths (18P075, 10P111, 10P140 Glassbestos, 10P225), widths 36" to 60", and slit tapes”, p. 21
  • Binder: “combination of two adhesives, which also serve as fillers”, p. 21

Asbestos Magazine, 1970, February 1970

  • Fiber grade: “two ASTM Grades; Underwriters Grade base fabrics to Fed. Spec. SS-C-466e; AAA Grade base fabrics”, p. 602
  • Use: “insulation on merchant vessels covered by U.S. Coast Guard Specifications, pipe and duct insulation”, p. 602
  • Binder: “100% inorganic adhesive, water-activated”, p. 602

Raybestos-Manhattan Sales and Price Records for Shipyards, the Navy and Other Customers (1948-1974)

  • Use: “Glassbestos cloth, Speedlag treated, sold to Porter Hayden, Baltimore” (sales to Porter Hayden, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 1883
  • Use: “quoted for the annual asbestos cloth requirements of Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock” (sales to McCormick Asbestos Company, Baltimore, for Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company), p. 983
  • Description: “Speedlag Asbestos Cloth, price schedule 4SL dated December 3, 1973” (sales to North Brothers Company, Spartanburg, South Carolina), p. 1613
  • Ingredient: “glass yarn reinforced (Style 10P111, type speedlag)” (sales to Porter Hayden, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland), p. 1893
  • Description: “non-metallic woven asb. cloth speedlag treated (Style 18P075)”, p. 1653
  • Ingredient: “glass yarn reinforced”, p. 983

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “69”, p. 84
  • Asbestos content: “65”, p. 84
  • Form: “CLOTH”, p. 84
  • Made until: “76”, p. 84
  • Description: “lagging cloth” (as of 1970), p. 1105
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS INSULATING CLOTH INSTALLS IN LESS TIME, AT LOWER COST AND IS LINT-FREE”, p. 16

Kind of product

We list Speedlag (Raybestos-Manhattan) with cloth, tape and other textiles, 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.

Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Raybestos-Manhattan (37)

Pyrotex · Novabestos · Novatex · Polybestos · Glassbestos · RM 24 H120 · RM 7504 · RM or R/M · RM Style 25 · Sealsafe · Silvabestos · Speed-Lag-Cloth · Tadpole · Terrybestos · Tribestos · Ablatape · Ablatube · Allbestos · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Rope · and 17 more on the company's page

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (264)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Insutape (Unarco) · Thermomat (Johns-Manville) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Shipshape (Raybestos—Manhattan) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · Soundgard (H. K. Porter) · Soundgard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Spauldite (Spaulding Fibre) · Splashgard (H. K. Porter) · Splashgard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Squeegee (Henrite Products) · Sta Safe Long Life (Standard Safety Equipment) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Steel-Grip (Industrial Gloves) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Stik-On (York Industries) · and 244 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1968, July 1968 (July 1, 1968), p. 2.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1970, February 1970 (February 1, 1970), p. 60.
  3. Raybestos-Manhattan Sales and Price Records for Shipyards, the Navy and Other Customers (1948-1974) (February 4, 1969), pp. 98, 161, 165, 188–189.
  4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.
  5. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 110. Not yet published in our library.
  6. Advertisement: Speedlag (Raybestos-Manhattan), p. 1.

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