I didn't include the mantles because most people don't have them. A lot of people use the salt substitute.
The Coleman replacement mantles sold by Century and made in India are still quite hot. http://www.neon-john.com/Nuke/century_mantle.jpg Last time I checked, WalMart still carried them. John On 03/13/2017 10:37 AM, GastonP wrote: > Well, I have bought a couple of old gas lamp mantle spares, the ones that > shine *very* bright, and use them to check my geiger counters too. They use > thorium to give out that extra bright. New ones are made with another > process, not so bright but with no radioactive substances either. As far as > I know some chinese vendors still sell the thorium covered ones. > I would tend to think that this would be hotter (radiation wise, of course) > than low sodium salt. At least that's what I measured at home. -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.tnduction.com <-- THE source for induction heaters http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a6ff8030-15e3-5895-b0c2-9d8bceecc8a5%40neon-john.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
