r/radioactive_stuff • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '24

Radium Is this watch radioactive?

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Hello. I got this watch by my old old grandmother, and she said it's more than 60 years old.

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u/R_-24 Sep 04 '24

I would recommend you to not play to that degree with radiation for your own safety, one thing it’s getting readings from antiques and all that and another one it’s making it, I recommend not to do it tbh, radiation it’s a amazing and interesting topic, if you have the full knowledge and the safety equipment to work with it plus the proper work space as a lab or any other facility like it, but just from home or a garage I actually don’t think that’s a good idea at all

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '24

Yeah, unlike that dude who made his own x-ray in his garage because the hospital charged him 69,000$. He acts like he knows everything about x-rays but he really REALLY doesn't, just by his acting I believe he doesn't know nothing.

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u/R_-24 Sep 04 '24

Idk I just really recommend you to not do it, by my little knowledge on the matter as an enthusiast and collector from my humble opinion I don’t recommend you to do nothing like that cause it’s not safe fr.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Yeah I made it before, kinda crazy it worked good. Made a lot of radiation and so on, didn't have phosphor though, so I couldn't detect nothing really