[Milsurplus] MAW-1 HOTSY-TOTSY

[Don Davis]

Do not, under any circumstances, try & remove radioactive materials.  You'll
wind up getting particles in the air, in your lungs, or through your skin.
Will develop cancer.  Even very low level alpha emitters will cause lung
cancer if inhaled.

Consider the worst-case scneario:  You tell the group what you intend to do.
Some nut-ball reports you to the govt.  They find "radioactive" material in
your home.  What do you think will happen to your home if you can't have it
"decontaminated" to the gov'ts satisfaction?  There are several hundred
ex-Navy officer housing units (really nice houses built in the 60's)  being
torn down near San Pedro because "they have asbestos floor tiles and lead
paint".  This, as they say, is no shit!  Also, if you have any such thing
happen, you'll have to disclose it when you try & sell your house.  You'll
have liability forever.

Only way to deal with radioactive stuff is to remove radioactive parts and
put in a sealed bag, or cover with shellac that will prevent chips from
coming off.

Also, keep mouth firmly shut about owning any radioactive materials,
asbestos, PCB caps, lead, armor piercing shells, etc.  Feind hort mit!

Be safe.

Don  AD6PB


> It's the "channel selector" & volume knob scales that're hot.  Think
> I'll remove knobs & plate & try for a decontamination somehow, someway.
> A minute of me @ a time.
>
> I'm with last week's consensus that getting officials involved'd be
> like alerting ghostbusters.  They might turn the place into a
> superfund site.