[Milsurplus] Clear protective spray on panels?

[J. Forster]

May be, but after 9/11 the US Feds got a whole lot more paranoid IMO. I
tried to import a very clean WS 58 set from Canada. The Vibrator Power
Supply showed up promptly. I'm still waiting for the set w/ Radium
markings.

YMMV,

-John

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> : You can be prosecuted for throwing that in your trash
> : and if you try to turn it in to the local HazMat people,
> : they and the Feds are going to get very curious about
>
> Odd when you consider the following:
>
> New York City did a haz-mat check a few years back and found roughly 800
> sites of radioactive waste in town, parks, alleys, trash cans, schools,
> taco
> stands...  This check was done with a helicopter, the materials were hot
> enough to be detected from several hundred feet up.
>
> In South Pasadena, my friend and I found 80 curies of tritium in a gutter
> near a bus stop.
>
> Around 1994, a scientist where a friend of mine worked security used to
> throw radioactive material in the trash to avoid hazmat charges, the
> really
> good stuff was sold on the black market.  Materials were stored behind a
> door that could be jimmied with a pen-knife.  The joke was "How much of
> what
> material can be sold for how much?"  Documentation of materials on-hand
> was
> off by roughly 90%, less material, less fees, less traceability, easier to
> toss in the lunch room trash.
>
> Around 1993, a fellow in a van with a load so hot it glowed drove through
> Glassell Park nuking the low-income neighborhood, then died some twenty
> minutes later and rolled the van down the hill through several houses,
> clean-up was slightly more than a push-broom and garden hose...
>
> A co-worker had a background radiation monitor on his filing cabinet back
> around 2000.  He lived in a typical housing tract, nowhere near industry
> or
> major routes.  Roughly once a week or so, a heavy truck could be heard
> driving by and the tick every few seconds increased to a near constant
> white
> noise that diminished as the truck drove on.
>
> Why go to any fuss at all?
>
> Kurt
>
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