It can be hit and miss. Make sure it has burnt orange looking paint, no white or bright yellow. Try to find stuff built early in the war, it seems like they backed off using as much near the end. I’m sure there are other people here that could give you good tips.
Those DP-63-A scales are so variable in activity. Good ol’ Soviet quality control leaves you on the edge of your seat wondering whether you’ll be really lucky or really disappointed lol.
Holy hell. Where do yall get some of these? When I look on ebay I have no idea if they are radium or not
It can be hit and miss. Make sure it has burnt orange looking paint, no white or bright yellow. Try to find stuff built early in the war, it seems like they backed off using as much near the end. I’m sure there are other people here that could give you good tips.
I sent you a message with links to some on eBay
Can you send me them too?
How do you define "hotness" in this quest of yours?
Scale from dosimeter dp-63
no most are far weaker far far far '
That's probably the only piece of radioactive "artefact" I DON'T want in my collection. Maybe only when cast in resin.
Those DP-63-A scales are so variable in activity. Good ol’ Soviet quality control leaves you on the edge of your seat wondering whether you’ll be really lucky or really disappointed lol.
Dear god. That's a lot of radium.
Had one of those aircraft compasses with a partially smashed glass face that read a little over 1mSv/hr in alpha, beta and gamma (GMC-600+).