Hi Liad,
Sorry to hear about your misfortune with your instrument collection,thats pretty awful that the police can do that.I remember reading about the radium paint in an EAA article a few years back but I can`t recall any mention of the legality of owning these instruments.If they want to be picky where will they draw the line?.will they start on WW2 aircraft owners next?.I have read that there is a slight danger of being in close proximity to these instruments but you would have to spend hours, day in day out by what I can understand from it.It will be interesting to see how this developes.Good luck and keep us posted.

Hello Mark PM replied 

Totally agree with what you said in your last post and thanks for the update on your progress, it is fantastic. Well done .

Interesting reading Dave, thanks for posting it.

Good book, well worth a read

Thanks powerandpassion, good luck with all the parts you’re after especially engine ones, it would be great to see a Hector and even better to see an airworthy one.