Well, the first thing I did when I built my Geiger counter was to go through all of my ex-USSR sourced stuff. Just in case, you know :). Nothing hot in there so far.
On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 3:22:03 AM UTC-3, Terry Kennedy wrote: > > On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 11:17:31 PM UTC-4, Paul Andrews wrote: >> >> I have often wondered about taking a geiger counter to my tubes. Call me >> paranoid, but I wonder where some of the NOS tubes come from precisely. >> > > Some years ago I bought an Elektronika 7-06K from an eBay seller in > Ukraine. It was full of the most noxious dust I could imagine - like finely > pulverized concrete, but very acrid. I asked the seller where he got the > clock, and he said "A disused industrial premise approximately 100km NNW of > Kiev". I don't know if he was kidding or not, but Chernobyl definitely had > some 7-06K's: > http://newsinphoto.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/chernocY-960x667.jpg > -- 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/e81e3eaf-5bf8-4ed3-8872-5265c1dce98c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
