Yeah we used to blow out the drum and disc brakes with compressed air and no doubt it was all over workshops everywhere. While evvery man and his dog joined the lynch mob for the modern James Hardie you need to bear in mind JH ceased all asbestos product manufacture in 1983. By the time the outraged mob were baying for blood there would hardly have been a shareholder or employee left from the asbestos days. No matter, a generation of consumers who had absconded with the cheap private cost of the products were all in the too hard basket, so the symbolic JH it was.
Now here's the sanctimonious hypocrisy of all those outraged pollies and union heavyweights frothing at the mouth and lining up for the photo ops with the Bernie Bantons. You see there was no real alternative to asbestos in brake linings so we, through our sanctimonious politicians, didn't stop the sale of asbestos linings until Jan 2003 and as that date approached every holder of stocks of linings was flogging them off at or below cost to clear their shelves. As a result many linings would be fitted by DIYers and the backyard mechanics for a year or two to come and all that time since JH saw the light in 1983, the ums and dads were depositing asbestos dust every time they dropped their preciousses at kindy or school. Get the picture? Our cars were more important than our kiddies futures.
