The right hand box is also used on Vulcan (bombing panel, stbd side of aircraft)

Oh crikey you don’t need a Geiger counter for tiny bit of luminous paint on an instrument dial. Won’t even register over background (cosmic radiation) I’d wager.

Just don’t grind it up and sniff it and you’ll be fine!!

I have seldom heard such nonsense from an allegedly qualified man.

The gamma from a Radium dial will make any detector go mental relative to background the other side of a brick wall.

The second comment contains a nugget of truth – the fact that the gamma goes through the brick wall means that it also goes through the man. However ingestion of powder which is an alpha emitter is a different issue since all of the dose will be absorbed in the man, not to mention the Radon decay products.

I am not an expert so I will stop there, suffice to say that it is hard to quantify the risk and foolish to dismiss it lightly.

Just found the drawing of the Lancaster ones and they were fabricated rather than cast either from plate or from tube and either in aluminum or cellulose acetate. Anything goes it seems. The tube is given as 1 5/8″ i.d.

(P.M. with email if you want the drawing 🙂 )

Looks like a Spitfire on floats…………………………..

Yep it’s the Mk308 😀

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This “WW2 Trench Art” has been made using post-war rifle cartridges (and a post-war piston ashtray) :rolleyes:

This was sadly far from the worst accident, the big one being Fauld quarry where the crater can still be seen from orbit.

For those interested I recommend the book “Disasters Underground” which details the difficulties faced by the RAF in finding suitable storage sites and the unsound practices which led to disaster.

‘AMP meter from London

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121177931743

😀 nearly wet myself, this is getting silly