well does anyone have a radium watch hand they are willing to sell?

 

all i can find on ebay are batches of them or expensive single rolex ones

 

so i figured someone on here might have extras laying around.

 

thanks

I wrote something and then deleted it because it was stupid. sorry.

If you're playing nuclear boyscout, the americium in smoke detectors is probably easier to get.

Not the watch, but I have a kit from the fifties to paint watch hands. It is labeled "Radium" on the instruction pamplet. No clue on its concentration or to confirm what is it; assume it is the regular concentration watches had. It has about 1g. of a pale green powder in a glass vial, some glue to mix it with, sovent, a microdish...

 

A 5 year old post:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10088&highlight=radium

 

Edited: added----> This is a picture found on the web, like my kit:

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radioluminescent/favoritetouchupkit.htm (This has the radium vial missing)

 

Rightmost here: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radioluminescent/radioluminescent.htm

Edited January 17, 201016 yr by Externet
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If you're playing nuclear boyscout, the americium in smoke detectors is probably easier to get.

 

element collection....i already have americium

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Not the watch, but I have a kit from the fifties to paint watch hands. It is labeled "Radium" on the instruction pamplet. No clue on its concentration or to confirm what is it; assume it is the regular concentration watches had. It has about 1g. of a pale green powder in a glass vial, some glue to mix it with, sovent, a microdish...

 

A 5 year old post:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10088&highlight=radium

 

Edited: added----> This is a picture found on the web, like my kit:

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radioluminescent/favoritetouchupkit.htm (This has the radium vial missing)

 

Rightmost here: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/radioluminescent/radioluminescent.htm

 

are you willing to sell some of it?

Hi.

Perhaps I should sell it. But I will not send it via mail, UPS...

Contact me at externet at inorbit dot com

 

Miguel

Thinking about Radium watches...My Grandad had a Rolex radium illuminated watch in WW2 that used to leave 12 small red blotches in a circle on his wrist when he took it off at the end of the day. He was a crew chief on Lancaster bombers.

 

I doubt that concentration would get passed health and safety today!