White cloth inside amp -- what is it?
I was given an old Gibson G20 (previously incorrectly given as B20) guitar combo amp. It's solid state, 10 inch driver with a spring reverb. Date of manufacture unknown. When I opened the back panel to look at the electronics I noticed white fabric lining the inside of the electronics housing. My guess is that it's asbestos to contain a fire if the amp should smoke itself. I hope I'm wrong because asbestos is pretty messy s#!÷.
Does anybody have any idea what this material is?
Thanks in advance.
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Without a picture, this is guesswork, however, asbestos seems far fetched to me. I'm suggesting perhaps a fiberglass weave intended to insulate the electronics from the chassis and also maybe prevent extensive damage in case of fire since it also doesn't burn and it costs less than asbestos. You mentioned it's a solid state amp, and I believe that the dangers of asbestos were already known when solid state amplifiers came into wide range popularity.
Case closed. I contacted a local asbestos abatement company and the manager says asbestos was at one time used as fire retardant in some electronics. Anyway, said company is disposing of it. Thanks all.
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