[Milsurplus] Clear protective spray on panels?

[Peter Gottlieb]

I have an old altimeter which is pretty "hot" from the radium on the 
dial, it gets about 2 mR through the glass.  The thorium mantles for 
Coleman stoves will do about 0.5 mR.  Other than that I can measure a 
little higher than normal activity from the granite countertops in the 
condo I'm renting and that's all I have ever found.  I'm always looking 
for examples of radioactivity but not too much around!  (I obviously 
don't keep the altimeter close to me!)

Btw, I have one of those PDR-27 counters, a later model which is all 
solid state.  It hasn't been calibrated but agrees pretty well with one 
that was current so it is probably in the ballpark.

Peter



Michael Tauson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Mike Morrow<kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> Good God...this is the stuff of Art Bell and Mother Earth News!
>>     
>
> Ahhh ... but it's good fodder for SF writers too.  God bless the
> conspiracy theorists; they keep coming up with cooler story lines than
> a lot of authors do.  ;-)
>
> BEst regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG
>