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  1. x-ray

    Select Vehicles on Hold GL WHAT?

    "Perhaps, but we haven't yet determined that radium was used on any of the gauges. My '69 is both glow, and radium free. It has no measurable gamma or beta emissions. It has none of the apparatus needed to have tritium dials... " Early Tritium wasn't in any apparatus- it was tritiated solvent...
  2. x-ray

    Select Vehicles on Hold GL WHAT?

    So it kind of comes down to- if you scrape the paint off from 500 gauges, then swallow it, you might get cancer in 50 years...maybe? So long as you dont ingest it, you would be fine. Radium behalves like calcium in the body and goes to the bone and has a long cycle to get out of the body...
  3. x-ray

    Select Vehicles on Hold GL WHAT?

    I hope its not radium, I've done a fair amount of radium gauge and glow in the dark button remediation years ago. It can be a pain to cleanup on old devices, the radium creeps through watchglasse, etc. even if the device is intact. The alpa (emits alpha, beta and gamma) emission from it...
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