I'm not too worried about that Nick for the following reasons. There's a small amount of mercury (vapour) in there, chronic inhalation is more of worry than acute exposure, therefore break the tube in a well ventilated area (outside) and leave for a while and things will be fine. Elemental mercury is far less of a concern than mercury salts or even worse, alkyl mercury's which can kill you with a single exposure if you're not careful.....
I think I've seen somewhere on the internet someone who cut the digits out of an IN-18 for just that very purpose... Nick On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:12:07 PM UTC, Pramanicin wrote: >> >> What use are the dead tubes (except for taking the digits out and using >> them as numerals in a regular clock?)....I have about 6 dead ones and am >> loath to throw them out... >> >> Don't do that - they are (almost certainly) coated in Mercury... > > Nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/x29xPwDJtBAJ. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
