Fun With Radium

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Dan S

·Dec 8, 2023

Duracuir1

This really is a fun thread!

Poor Marie.

 

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Dsloan

·Dec 8, 2023

Dan S

Poor Marie.

All things considered, it's amazing that she made it to the ripe old age of 66!

 

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gbesq

·Dec 8, 2023

Duracuir1

This really is a fun thread!

I blame Dan. 😁

 

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Dan S

·Dec 9, 2023

gbesq

I blame Dan. 😁

My apologies if my comments took the fun out of the thread. 🤦

 

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Duracuir1

·Dec 9, 2023·Never Used A Kodak

The train @gbesq and @Dan S is back on track. I stopped in at my storage facility…

and got the Seatimer out for some photos. Move over Ranchero…

 

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gbesq

·Dec 9, 2023

Dan S

My apologies if my comments took the fun out of the thread. 🤦

No apology necessary. Was only kidding! We now return to our regular programming.

 

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river9

·Dec 9, 2023

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@All OFrs
Thanks for this very informative thread.
May I ask about tritium lume materials here. Please

 

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Linesiders

·Dec 9, 2023

gbesq

It's certainly dangerous if you lick your radium lumed watch dials or decide to service the watches yourself and breathe in radium dust from disintegrated lume. The conventional wisdom is that it's safe as long as the watch case is intact and you don't do the foregoing. My Geiger counter shows all of my radium watches to have relatively low levels of emissions.

My geigers showed increasingly dangerous every time I jumped up to a better counter.

The GMC 600+ Picks up things the other two list as dead. Soooo, keep in mind detector quality matters ; )