I was reading a 1970s Kenmore dryer manual and found out they originally shipped with a 6-foot asbestos heat shield cord

bethjackson5mo ago

Found one of those on an old dryer I was fixing. Just cut it off and replaced it with a modern heat cord.

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jordanr893mo ago

Yeah, cut that thing off and move on. People act like asbestos is gonna reach out and grab you.

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the_willow5mo ago

People get really worked up about asbestos, but it's only dangerous if you're breaking it up and breathing the dust for years. A heat shield cord that's been sitting there for fifty years, still in one piece, isn't exactly a ticking time bomb. The risk from a single, intact part like that is pretty much zero in my book. Replacing it is fine, but treating it like a biohazard seems like overkill. It's not the same as tearing out old pipe insulation every day.

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