![]() This seemed like a great find so i jumped on it. I'm probably not gonna go to watchmaking school for over a year so i got a lot of time to keep scouring the bay for deals. It does a million things and it needs to do them well so i'm thinking i should just go for it with a decent one but yeah i'm on a limited budget. Best i can tell a staking set to a watchmaker is like like a drill press to a fine woodworker. When it comes to tools, especially with this so far i'm finding there's certain things that cheaping out on ends up costing me more. As we can see a nice watch I should've set the hands C Elledge burning was on the dial I didn't think about that did very clearly see the crystals when burned. That I knew we had something lurking in the shop I found it. We also don't know how long they've been there we can guestimate when they last made hands with radium. Most people probably wouldn't even notice I just happen to know what it is. The radium burn on the card that the hands are on isn't really that spectacular. Then I have some pictures for you since you like pictures. They might just be better to have a picture of it someplace in and put the item somewhere else away from people. Then of course there is the other problem if you put it in your landline box you going to keep opening it up to look at it you might have to get some lead glass and that's probably going be considerably thicker than the lead itself. Unless of course you just isolate the item from you in the house or wherever you are. Find out how much lead you need to isolate yourself from the radium. Really the best way to figure this out would be to find somebody with a Geiger counter preferably a sensitive one. There are examples of people seeing the effect of radiation usually the outcome on the people were very bad. The problem with radiation is typically you don't see it. But I'm not sure how thick the lead foil should be. I will keep that crystal with the Watch as I think it is amazing for a collector.įor radiation safety, a box lined with lead foil would be advisable. The Watch ran well when wound and kept spot on time for the day then I just let it wind down, I to have not seen crystal radium burn, but I am guessing that this watch looking at the case which is like new could have sat in the dark in its box for up to 60 years maybe. ![]() I quickly put the front cover back on because there was significant amounts of lume dust around. The dial has damage as well as in the enamel shine of the black dial is gone from most of the dial. Hi there John, a big variable here is that the age of radium burns isn't necessarily a function of the age of the watch, but rather of how long the watch has been stopped. Then you only see the burn if it stays in one place long enough to burn something. So unfortunately the radium stuff is still around unless you have a Geiger counter unless it burns the paper a dial or crystal he can't look at him and tell entirely. Unless you have a Geiger counter you don't know that that nice assortment a hands that you bought some of them are radium. The problem watch repair is things like the hand assortments there's a brand-new hand assortments from whatever it doesn't have a date on it most people wouldn't know the radium unless you knew what to look for. Unfortunately for watch repair, you will see it as I said on dials occasionally the hand assortments if you're still on the paper occasionally. This even came up the other day somebody asked about it I showed him the hands the radium hands you could see the paper was burned. Hands were mounted on a piece of paper and the radium hands if you move the hand you can see where burn the paper. The other place where I see it is the old hand assortments. Usually the watchmaking point of view you'll see radium burn on the dial I've never seen it on a crystal. My understanding is the military radium products are very very bad compared to the civilian. Not very often you come across radium burn.
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