I just can't find a nice transitional.. so I got a 105.002 instead

dougiedude · Mar 28, 2015

The hands on my are old, as you can see from the video I just posted. Despite their apparent greenish hue, they give a pretty strong reading on my Geiger...😲, so they gotta be before 1962!

Edit: You are right, @TNTwatch , hard to see those index lume dots, but they light up with my UV light... perhaps my hands were relumed at some point, because those stay lit longer; for about 3-4 seconds...

Sorry for a minor hijack, Joel... I need to get my Radium/Geiger thread going some other time, but Soon!!

TNTwatch · Mar 28, 2015

oddboy
Phew!

😀

(sorry dougiedue!)

Well, if you don't like that chrono hand, you can just throw it away anytime.. 😀

flyingout · Mar 28, 2015

dougiedude
deceptive green lume[emoji79]on my 58 SM!

Ouch. That's an expensive counter you got there.

oddboy · Mar 28, 2015

TNTwatch
Well, if you don't like that chrono hand, you can just throw it away anytime.. 😀

Well, I won't be buying any watches soon, but I will be on the lookout for a few bits and pieces..

TNTwatch · Mar 28, 2015

dougiedude
The hands on my are old, as you can see from the video I just posted. Despite their apparent greenish hue, they give a pretty strong reading on my Geiger...😲, so they gotta be before 1962!

I can't really see on the video if the hands are old or not. But if you're sure the hands' lumes are original, then you've just showned a good data point on the ageing of Radium lume.👍

dougiedude · Mar 28, 2015

dougiedude
The hands on my are old, as you can see from the video I just posted. Despite their apparent greenish hue, they give a pretty strong reading on my Geiger...😲, so they gotta be before 1962![/

TNTwatch
I can't really see on the video if the hands are old or not. But if you're sure the hands' lumes are original, then you've just showned a good data point on the ageing of Radium lume.👍

I'm not sure about the age; I agree, it sure looks consistent with the green appearance non-patinated tritium! I had assumed the Geiger counter reading was from the hands, since those dots were so miniscule... would be an interesting experiment to remove and check the hands!

dougiedude · Mar 28, 2015

flyingout
Ouch. That's an expensive counter you got there.

I got it primarily to test my watches, decided not to go cheap!

I need to test the @oddboy watch for sure... be quite happy to do so..... might take a few weeks, maybe months or years, since half-life of radium is 1500 years, and I'd need to get a significant percentage of that time to see if there's a reduction in radiation output...😁

TNTwatch · Mar 28, 2015

dougiedude
Edit: You are right, @TNTwatch , hard to see those index lume dots, but they light up with my UV light... perhaps my hands were relumed at some point, because those stay lit longer; for about 3-4 seconds...

Staying lit longer because there are more luminous material on the hands than those dots and 3-4 secs is short enough to say they're very old.

TLIGuy · Mar 29, 2015

dsio
There's probably a box full of #6 endlinks over in Bienne being used to prop a door open somewhere in a storage building.

Probably true. The box is sitting right next to the stack of DON bezels they use to keep the tables from wobbling in the cafeteria instead of folded napkins.