AW: [simpits-tech] "Unbelievable" but TRUE :P

[Marc Weigert]

> I've been offered a few 'oldie' parts, but just about anything pre 1965
> used radium to provide some luminesence on the dials. With age, this stuff
> turns to dust - open the case - cough cough cough...

That's indeed possible!

Here is a photo of the part in question and with his radiometer on top:
http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/attachment.php?postid=96246

The NBC Squad meassured 4876 mS and the laboratory came to the conclusion
that it is Radium 226. The seller gets prosecuted of breaking the German-Ray
(or Radioactivity?) Law :PPPP

Cheers,

Marc









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