Planing Asbestos
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This ancient block plane was found hanging around in the murky depths of my workshop. I'm not sure how old it is, but it is clearly from a time before the hazards of asbestos were well-known, beacuse on the side you can see it says "for asbestos", with an image of a happy-looking chap planing away at a corrugated sheet of the stuff. This is of course a really bad idea because the plane will produce plenty of toxic asbestos dust, ready to be inhaled.