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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1665 on: November 23, 2013, 10:20:04 AM »
220 and I'm not brave when it comes to that shit. Got shocked by an improperly grounded stove after the ex hired his buddy to wire the 220 to it after we were married.

Anyways...wiped it off and it still lives...for now.


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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1666 on: November 23, 2013, 03:26:01 PM »
220 is nothing. Try 380.  :M
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1667 on: November 23, 2013, 03:36:59 PM »
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The grammar annoyed me. :M

Maybe she's a fatty fat american. :P

She doesn't look fat enough to be American. :nerdy: She's probably a Brit; they rarely speak proper English. :autism:

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240V vintage heater that looks really nice, but I'll probably scrap since I have no way to test.
2 lighted deer, with a bunch of spare lights, will see if I can get them working...I need some cheap free outside dec.
1 Shepards hook for the garden.
1 big brass hanging light fixture.
1 rug

My brother hooks up his 220 machines on construction sites with really big alligator clips directly to the panel it makes me a bit nervous though   

Your brother is :arrr:.

Does he run it through a breaker?

No he takes the cover off the panel and hooks up to the bus bars I have seen a lot of people do it but it makes me nervous .  I prefer just bring my generator if I need 220 on a construction site and its not available

That's either :arrr: or :facepalm2: of him, depending on whether he starts a fire. I am not :viking: enough to do something like that.

IQ: Do you have any appliances (washer, dryer, refrigerator, etc.) that run on 240 V? Could you hook it to one of those outlets?

I would always use an outlet if one was available and so would he but this is portable heavy equipment that is temporary used during construction and renovations.  At home I can test things on my dryer circuit
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1668 on: November 23, 2013, 07:03:27 PM »
I found an old watch with a radium dial at my father's condo for my collection
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1669 on: November 23, 2013, 10:54:05 PM »
Nice. How old is it?

Still kicking off alphas like a motherfucker I bet though.

There is an antique clock specialist shop very near me. I've been meaning to go down there and start scanning the merchandise with a geiger counter. I have read of, on occasion, if one gets really, really really lucky, that some have compartments containing a vial of radium paint, for retouching dials.

The 'nuclear boy scout', Hahn, apparently got one of these. Started out with an americium 241/beryllium-based neutron gun, which wasn't sufficient for his thorium reactor work (guy built his own crude thorium-based breeder reactor from scratch, scavenging items from all sorts of places, to mcguyver up a working reactor)

It wasn't enough, as those little 241Am sources in smoke alarms are not particularly hot. But he got lucky, after first starting scraping radium dials like a maniac IIRC, then hitting the jackpot, in the form of an antique clock containing an actual bottle of radium paint.

Lucky cunting bastard :P
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1670 on: November 24, 2013, 02:55:21 AM »
The watch is probably from the 50's.  As to finding any paint I live in one of those areas that it is a good possibility due to all the manufacturing that went on around here over the years of everything from clocks, electronics and airplanes especially around WW2. 
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1671 on: November 24, 2013, 04:02:42 AM »
Hey if you do find anything like that, and don't have the urge immediately to bag it yourself, it would be great if you could shoot me a PM maybe, parts. Electroreduction to metallic Ra, to plate it out as a thin layer on a conductive substrate would be fucking sweet, to display it glowing like fury, in a sealed leaded glass tube.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1672 on: November 25, 2013, 11:08:26 AM »
Found two more broken watches with radium dials in boxes from my fathers :parts:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1673 on: November 25, 2013, 11:41:19 PM »
Radium dials are BRAVE! :arrr:

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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1674 on: November 27, 2013, 06:01:26 AM »
Found that we are going through cat food really fast now that we have two cats instead of one.
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1675 on: November 27, 2013, 08:53:22 AM »
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Found that we are going through cat food really fast now that we have two cats instead of one.

Twice as fast, perhaps? :P
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1676 on: November 27, 2013, 11:32:21 AM »
Annoying people everywhere I went :thumbdn:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1677 on: November 28, 2013, 06:49:17 PM »
I found a small pin and one cufflink made of 10K gold totaling  5.5 grams that were mixed in with buttons and other debris I got out of the bottoms of drawers at my fathers and still much more to sort through.  It's nice to have my OCD tendencies pay off once and awhile  instead of just being a pain in the ass :zoinks:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1678 on: November 28, 2013, 07:19:40 PM »
Quote from: Parts on November 27, 2013, 11:32:21 AM
Annoying people everywhere I went :thumbdn:

What did Caesar do with annoying people? :arrr:
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Re: What did you find today?
« Reply #1679 on: November 28, 2013, 11:45:56 PM »
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Annoying people everywhere I went :thumbdn:

What did Caesar do with annoying people? :arrr:

Prepared them a salad? :tard:
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