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In Reply to: RE: ping RGA (and any other watch guys)... posted by Jim Pearce on March 16, 2023 at 19:20:39
I have a old Westclox Big Ben alarm clock from the 1940s or so. It has radium paint on the hands, and they still glow in the dark, 80-odd years later. No need to 'charge it up' with sunlight. :)
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You could NOT get that timepiece across the US / Mexico Border,
My wife received a very small dose of radioactive Iodine. Halflife is about 5.5 days.
Wife went South about 2 weeks AFTER and closed the place down while they determined she was an idiot.
Doc said NOT to cross, but I do not remember his time frame. But 2 halflives AFTER a very small dose and she STILL lit the place up?
EXTREMELY sensitive detectors.....
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That's good to know, although, as I wrote in reply to dean_martin, it just sits on my dresser as a decorative piece, and hasn't worked since forever. And I don't plan on moving out of the country any more.
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Might be worthwhile to get it fixed, before all the real watchmakers expire?
My brother, who was difficult to wake, used a pair of Electric Range Clocks sitting on inverted pie tins.
Sounded like a prison break and DID succeed in getting him going.....
these were wind-up 'tick tock' types.....
Too much is never enough
don't let it escape the clock. that stuff is dangerous. (see link.) I find the tritium tubes used by makers like Marathon intriguing.
Funny you should mention that. It just sits on my dresser as a decorative piece, and hasn't worked since forever. It was my grandparent's clock. A section of the paint of one hand broke off many decades ago, before I inherited it. I suppose the piece is still inside somewhere. I've always thought about opening it up to find the broken-off piece and glue it back into place - using tweezers, of course.
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Ottawa IL is about 45 minutes SW of me, and I'm there a few times per year with my civil war reenactment group. The 'radium girls' always comes up as a topic at living histories and museum days.
A little less than it was 20 years ago, as most of the folks with first-hand experience with victims have passed on. But still quite a few 'my grandparents used to talk about a sister' who was a victim.
Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.
one of the "boutique" watch brands issued a limited edition "Radium Girls" version of one of its watches. I had mixed feelings about it. I appreciated the effort to "remember" those affected, but it seemed a little morbid and exploitative to me.
You jogged my memory of this clean up back in the nineties. A former radium processing plant that went by the wayside with a neighborhood later built up around it. At the time I was working a few blocks away at a school being renovated.
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My father used to keep a rock full of asbestos fibers from his time as controller of an asbestos mine.
The science teacher was testing our watches with a giegercounter.
He told this one boy that it would be best if he took his watch off at night ;-)
Keep Your Hands Clean,
John K
To use a baseball metaphor, he had his bases covered.
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