[ RadSafe ] Thorium Lamp Mantles

Thomas Johnston tjohnstn at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 15:25:22 CDT 2015


There is acolleague in Pakistan or India that offered these @ $0.25 each,
plus shipping.
Perhaps I still have the contact information.

Thomas P. Johnston
NIST Center for Neutron Research
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Amoling, Ronald <RAmoling at as-e.com> wrote:

> I have seen them on ebay as well occasionally.
>
>
>
> Ronald Amoling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Cueva, Louie
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 1:59 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Thorium Lamp Mantles
>
> When I needed a few for demonstration purposes I found some thoriated
> mantles at a local Army/Navy surplus store.
>
> -Louie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ted de Castro
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 2:12 PM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Thorium Lamp Mantles
>
> Does anyone know where there may be a source of the Thoriated - ie.
> radioactive - lamp mantles.
>
> I need a few check sources and only have 2 hot packets left.
>
> The Coleman branded ones have not been hot for some time - but I just went
> shopping around and even the imports I found are cold.
>
> A packet of No Salt is not quite hot enough to work well and a smoke
> detector source is too hot and a bag of fertilizer too large.  AND - I am
> NOT breaking up my Fiesta Ware!!!
>
> Ted de Castro
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