From: Larry Tighe (larryradio@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 10:53:07 PDT
BTW, years ago there was a story in the newspapers and tv about all the
ladies that used to paint those dials. I think the company was in Newark
NJ. They would wet the brush in their mouth to narrow it to a point, and
dip it into the "radiating paint". They're all dead now.
Seems ingesting the bad paint is a lot different than looking at it from a
distance...but, "environment is in" no matter how stupid the
issue....there's lots of money to be made.
lar
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick" <rertman@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:01 PM
Subject: [MV] Fw: Safety First
> I'm not even gonna comment on this one!!!
>
> Dick
>
>
>> For my aviation buddies....
>>
>> Now I REALLY feel SAFE!
>>
>> 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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