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

[Gene Buckle]

> 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
>

That sucks.  This poor dude gets hosed because of the radium paint used to
make the dial faces visible in darkness.  "Sell an old instrument, go to
jail!"  Mind bogglingly stupid.

g.