[Milsurplus] Clear protective spray on panels?

[J. Forster]

There are clearly some hot things around, including some aircraft
instruments and radio control boxes. There are power switches where the
tip of the toggle is glass and has pink-violet power behind it which are
hot too. I even ran across a condensor lens from a projector that really
made a GC scream.

But w/ common sense, they present essentially negligable hazards. Don't
smash them up, lick them, or sleep w/ them or give them to kids.

FWIW,
-John

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> 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
>>
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