On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 9:48:20 AM UTC-4, Paul Andrews wrote: > > I thought you all might find this amusing. I while back there was a thread > about tubes with radon in them. That set me off on a little side-quest > where I ended building a Geiger counter using an old Russian Geiger-mueller > tube. It has never detected anything but background levels. > > I also buy other vintage stuff, and my wife just asked me to check one of > them for radioactivity, because she said “it looks like it glows”. It had > never occurred to me. Anyhow, here is the result: > > https://youtu.be/PMrHIyntT4s
For a while I was buying up Elektronika clocks from the ex-Soviet Union. When I received them, I'd replace the VFD tubes and otherwise freshen them up. One of them was full of the nastiest, grittiest dust imaginable. When I asked the seller what was up, and where it came from, they replied "a disused industrial premises approx. 100km NNW of Kiev". AKA Chernobyl. -- 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/4c3aa77e-c927-47d1-8ec7-c5484ac8ed3e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
