From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 20:53:41 PDT
The Army went though all their old trucks and collected those types of
speedometer quite a while back. I had been awarded a M62 on a national sale
back when the good ole DRMS was still selling trucks(early 1990's) and
in-between the time I bided and the time I went to pickup a crew came to the
yard and removed all they found. When I complained they gave me the choice
of my money back or take it as-is. I took the truck. My high bid was less
than 3500.00 and NO 10% or sales tax added! It had been upgraded to the
multifuel engine, too. Wayne
>From: Joe Foley <redmenaced@yahoo.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] [R-390] Meters and Radium-226........ speedomtrs NEXT?
>Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:09:55 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>--- DCrespy@aol.com wrote:
> > Not too far off topic, I hope. From the AVweb web
> > site. (Wonder if they
> > have any R-390/390A meters?)
> >
> > Harry KG5LO
> > Saline MI
> >
> > Hazardous Instruments Keep Pilots From Planes
> >
> > At least 12 aircraft owners at Chino Airport in
> > California have been unable
> > to get to their airplanes for more than a month
> > because of their neighbor's
> > hobby of collecting luminescent dialed instruments.
> > San Bernardino County
> > officials say there are enough old airplane
> > instruments painted with radium-226
> > inside two hangars occupied by Preservation Aviation
> > Inc. to create a radiation
> > hazard. Since March 10, authorities have barred
> > access to neighboring
> > hangars. Airport manager James Jenkins told the
> > Daily Bulletin that the neighboring
> > aircraft are not contaminated but the area around
> > them is off-limits. The
> > county estimates it will cost more than $200,000 to
> > collect all the instruments
> > and dispose of them safely. Because the county owns
> > one of the hangars and
> > the land under the other, it will undertake the
> > cleanup but will be looking to
> > get the money back from Preservation Aviation owner
> > Jeff Pearson, who wasn't
> > available to comment. This is the second time the
> > company has been at the
> > center of a radiation scare. The Chino
> > investigation stemmed from the
> > Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 probe of a
> > North Hollywood warehouse in which
> > Preservation Aviation stored thousands of
> > radium-containing instruments.
> > Radiation levels in that warehouse were 100 times
> > greater than normal. The Los
> > Angeles Daily News reported at the time that the
> > cost of that cleanup was $7
> > million.
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