Asbestos was also used as insulation in electric toasters, irons, waffle makers etc., both in the appliances as well as in the cloth-covered electrical cords. Same for old lighting instruments and fixtures. When I was a teenager I used to work on the stage lights for the school's drama club. Up in the ceiling of the auditorium were banks of large fresnel and kleig lights. Their electrical cables consisted of pairs of wires insulated with a rubber lining and covered with an asbestos sheath. When the asbestos scare erupted in the early 1980s I thought back to high school and working on that old lighting equipment. I started worrying about having inhaled some of those asbestos fibers. Even a tiny, single speck of asbestos can cause lung disease and the disease can take as long as 40 years to appear. But so far, "knock on wood," I'm fine. Well, at least insofar as my lungs are concerned, heheh.