From: Jeff (jcerniglia@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 04:09:18 PDT
LOL, this is pretty funny stuff, does everyone realize
how much of that stuff was used back then??? I mean
from Clock radio dials to alarm clocks to wrist
watches, it was used a lot in civilian manufacturing,
in fact far out numbering aircraft instruments. So
given these numbers the entire civilian population
should be dead by now right??
I think the only danger would be if you were to pop
off the gauge face and either lick the dial face or
pull of a needle and use it as a toothpick!!!
Regards,
Jeff
--- Wayne Harris <papercu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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