[Milsurplus] Is TBX-6 Radio Hot or Cold

[Thomas Adams]

At 05:32 PM 8/30/2006 EDT, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>Does anyone happen to know for certain (actual measurements) whether radium 
>based paint was or was not used on the radio for the TBX-6?  I just had an 
>inquiry from a non-radio (MV) type who found most of the set in the
transit case 
>and that was one of his questions.  I've never checked that particular model 
>myself.  Navy Type Number would be either CG-43005-C (or -D if modified by
the 
>Navy).
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
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I've seen several sets; SOME are hot, others aren't. Not all versions used the
radioactive paint treatment.

Only way to be sure is borrow a Geiger counter.


Mr. T.