Documents in our library describe Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “703 tadpole tape (beaded w.i. braid without holes)”.1 They give it as sold from 1957.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Raybestos-Manhattan Sales and Price Records for Shipyards, the Navy and Other Customers (1948-1974)
Catalog page: R/M FOLDED ASBESTOS GASKETS Type G (R/M Nos. 700, 700-OR, 701, 701-OR) and 1 other product
- Asbestos content: “wire-inserted asbestos cloth”, p. 12
Kind of product
We list Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Raybestos-Manhattan (37)
Pyrotex · Novabestos · Novatex · Polybestos · Glassbestos · RM 7504 · RM or R/M · RM Style 25 · Sealsafe · Silvabestos · Speed-Lag-Cloth · Speedlag · Terrybestos · Tribestos · Ablatape · Ablatube · Allbestos · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Rope · Asbestos Tape · 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) · Super Temp-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Supercote (Garland) · Superheat (Johns-Manville) · Superinsutape (Unarco) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (H. K. Porter) · Tadpole (Johns-Manville) · Tanpac (A. W. Chesterton) · Tba "T" Range (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Tex-Knit (maker not given) · Therm-a-gard (H. K. Porter) · Thermagard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Thermalon (Amatex) · Thermo-Chem (Johns-Manville) · Thermo-Pac (Johns-Manville) · and 244 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
See also
- Raybestos-Manhattan: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Raybestos-Manhattan on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
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