I recently picked up this radioactive vacuum tube, I couldn't find what isotope it used online but I deduced it wasn't a gas since it's more radioactive at one end than the other. Today I was shining my UV light on it, for some reason, and I noticed some fluorescent dust at the bottom, upon closer inspection it turns out there's just a blob of radium lume on the cathode.
I recently picked up this radioactive vacuum tube, I couldn't find what isotope it used online but I deduced it wasn't a gas since it's more radioactive at one end than the other. Today I was shining my UV light on it, for some reason, and I noticed some fluorescent dust at the bottom, upon closer inspection it turns out there's just a blob of radium lume on the cathode.
My mother recently found this when going through some stuff, I believe it belonged to my great grandfather.
Unfortunately the hairspring was broken and mostly missing but I do have a tiny piece that could be measured. I initially thought the balance wheel was ok but I now think that the tips of the axle are broken. The rest of the movement seems alright, it can be wound and the hands advance if I manually move the escapement.
Does anyone know where, if it's ever possible, to get parts for this (I'm in France by the way)
I got this today and the movement especially looks really new, how old do you think it is?
I got this clock today and it's got radium lume, but especially looking at the movement, it looks relatively recent. So how old do you think it is?
There's this trefoil on the door to the Emmaüs in Caen (14) (Emmaüs is a french charitable organisation that takes donations of used stuff and sells it in their shops). Does anyone have any idea why it could be there ? I initially thought it could have been from a previous use of the building but that building has been Emmaüs since at least 2008, and the sign looks newer than that.
Scanned my light over a big box of marbles and saw a flash of green so I went through the whole box and came home with 29, for 2€. Most are in pretty good condition, one has a big chip and a few have some small ones.
Full credit to @frcncscah on tiktok for this masterpiece.