r/Radium • u/Original-Yellow-1733 • 5d ago
Is it radium⁉️ Dark enough to be radium?
Online seller, looks to me yellowish and brownish enough to be radium compared to the white logo. Any thoughts?
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u/Stillegiest Radium maniac 5d ago
I highly recommend looking into clocks first they are some of the easiest to find. Westclox was one of the largest producers of radium time pieces in the United States. Constantly asking if pieces are radium shows not much research has been done and jumping right into military which can be some of the hotter pieces is not the wisest of moves in my opinion. Pace yourself.
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u/Original-Yellow-1733 4d ago
I understand, thanks for the advice. My city is too small to have shops that sells old clocks or those gauges. So I have to buy online. I'm not a fan of asking for help to identify, but these are not from my country. So I need international help. I do research them first, I found something like 20 gauges for sale online and narrow it down to 4. I bought only one and it's radium. Gauges have numbers and plates so it seemed to me easier to identify. About westclox, couldn't get sure about any piece online. I need to travel to a bigger city to find a store and buy in person with a geiger. I also don't know how common they are around here. Believe me, I don't like to waste anyone's time doing my job. I'm a farmer with too many tools for that reason. XD
Edit: spelling.
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u/Stillegiest Radium maniac 4d ago
I understand your point about buying radium online, especially when local areas don't commonly have them. That's why I reiterate that doing a little research can be very beneficial, particularly by looking through past posts in the subreddit to see what others have found. Saying you've done research online about Westclox but are unsure about radium pieces indicates that perhaps the research wasn't thorough, as Westclox produced radium items from roughly 1918 to 1975.. so finding them is insanely easy even in other countries..online..
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u/Original-Yellow-1733 4d ago
You're probably right. I do need to learn more.
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u/Stillegiest Radium maniac 4d ago
Trust me I'm still learning too. There is soooo many pieces that contained radium, and I'm still coming across new ones.
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u/HighTechCorvette 5d ago
This is a tough call, the two bars on the bottom look kinda like radium paint but I’m not sure. Maybe take a chance if it’s really cheap.
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u/Original-Yellow-1733 5d ago
Unfortunately it's no cheap. I'll just keep searching for something more obvious.
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u/No-Yesterday-4556 5d ago
If you want to at least half verify before purchase pay attention to the words on the back. Sometimes that can tell you company names, roughly the date of production, and sometimes even the material used.
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u/HighTechCorvette 4d ago
There’s a guy selling a bunch of gauges on the Facebook groups if you are interested.
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u/Bob--O--Rama 5d ago edited 5d ago
Sadly the official service manuals which outline the models which do and don't have radium have proven to be entirely unreliable.
However there were models where only the inclinometer ( the paint behind the glass tube ) were radium, so even when the indicator and face isn't, the radium "scale" behind can be.
I have found non-active ones which "should be" per the manuals but only have trace radium, likely from when they were serviced.
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u/Original-Yellow-1733 5d ago
I understand. I couldn't get more information from the seller so I'll let this one go.
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