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Date: 06 Sep 2006 01:43:57
From: Mark F.
Subject: For Real, has anyone done this?
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Ebay Auction of a LP for a Dobbs Swivel Bearing! ????
Item number: 150029656705
-- Mark f.
Hike High Mountains
Fish for Wild Trout
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Date: 05 Sep 2006 21:27:50
From: laura halliday
Subject: Re: For Real, has anyone done this?
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Mark F. wrote:
> Ebay Auction of a LP for a Dobbs Swivel Bearing! ????
> Item number: 150029656705
Why not?
I haven't used vinyl records for Dob bearings, but used
16mm film cans for side bearings in one. As for the other
parts, I've long since gotten out of the habit of telling
people at the hardware store or lumberyard what I
want the stuff for.
The less said about my trips to the local thrift stores
the better. I always take my geiger counter... :-)
It's all part of the fun, finding creative uses for other
peoples' stuff.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "That's a totally illegal,
Grid: CN89mg madcap scheme. I like it!"
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - H. Pearce
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Date: 06 Sep 2006 06:13:41
From: Dan Mckenna
Subject: Re: For Real, has anyone done this?
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laura halliday wrote:
> Mark F. wrote:
>
>>Ebay Auction of a LP for a Dobbs Swivel Bearing! ????
>> Item number: 150029656705
>
>
> Why not?
>
> I haven't used vinyl records for Dob bearings, but used
> 16mm film cans for side bearings in one. As for the other
> parts, I've long since gotten out of the habit of telling
> people at the hardware store or lumberyard what I
> want the stuff for.
>
> The less said about my trips to the local thrift stores
> the better. I always take my geiger counter... :-)
>
> It's all part of the fun, finding creative uses for other
> peoples' stuff.
>
> Laura Halliday VE7LDH "That's a totally illegal,
> Grid: CN89mg madcap scheme. I like it!"
> ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - H. Pearce
>
Laura,
What have you found to be "hot" at the thrift store ?
My experience to date is that dinner plates with some sort of
reddish orange glaze can be detected from across the room and
some old radium dials on clocks etc can also be quite warm.
I am told that many women in WWII lost their lives to painting dials for
aircraft instruments.
dan
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Date: 06 Sep 2006 18:46:31
From: William Hamblen
Subject: Re: For Real, has anyone done this?
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On 2006-09-06, Dan Mckenna <dmckenna@as.arizona.edu > wrote:
> laura halliday wrote:
>> Mark F. wrote:
>>
>>>Ebay Auction of a LP for a Dobbs Swivel Bearing! ????
>>> Item number: 150029656705
>>
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> I haven't used vinyl records for Dob bearings, but used
>> 16mm film cans for side bearings in one. As for the other
>> parts, I've long since gotten out of the habit of telling
>> people at the hardware store or lumberyard what I
>> want the stuff for.
>>
>> The less said about my trips to the local thrift stores
>> the better. I always take my geiger counter... :-)
>>
>> It's all part of the fun, finding creative uses for other
>> peoples' stuff.
>>
>> Laura Halliday VE7LDH "That's a totally illegal,
>> Grid: CN89mg madcap scheme. I like it!"
>> ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - H. Pearce
>>
>
> Laura,
>
> What have you found to be "hot" at the thrift store ?
>
> My experience to date is that dinner plates with some sort of
> reddish orange glaze can be detected from across the room and
> some old radium dials on clocks etc can also be quite warm.
>
>
> I am told that many women in WWII lost their lives to painting dials for
> aircraft instruments.
Before atomic energy came along the main use for uranium oxide
was in yellow pottery glaze.
Radium paint was first used for military purposes in WWI and the
"radium girls" tragedy was in the 1920s. By WWII they had
learned better.
Carole Lombard played Hazel Flagg in Nothing Sacred in 1937.
Her character supposedly had radium poisoning, but didn't. You
ought to see it. They don't make movies like that any more.
Some rare earth glasses are radioactive.
Bud
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Date: 06 Sep 2006 21:13:03
From: laura halliday
Subject: Re: For Real, has anyone done this?
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William Hamblen wrote:
> Before atomic energy came along the main use for uranium oxide
> was in yellow pottery glaze.
Yes. The main things I see are older yellow and orange
pottery, and certain older camera lenses. You never
know just what you'll find, which is all part of the fun.
An important use nowadays for depleted uranium is
counterweights for control surfaces on large aircraft.
Much denser than lead.
It's also entertaining taking a geiger counter to the
supermarket. I think this means I need to get out
more... :-)
My geiger counter is a Russian job I picked up on
EBay, BTW. Thanks to Chornobyl and the Soviet
Union's generally casual attitudes about radioactivity,
they're a common item. Sad.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "That's a totally illegal,
Grid: CN89mg madcap scheme. I like it!"
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - H. Pearce
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