An opportunity to upgrade 
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do you need to get in the oil bath with the dial/hands?
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Still very much do-able, albeit the paint version isnāt used much now, much more the little tubes that Ball and a fair few others use. I think Tritec will supply H3 paint in bulk thoā.
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Has a half-life of 12.3 years, so depending on when he got it he may well have rather less of it now.
So a bit of a bugger to measure, but very important to keep outside of you if you donāt want to go the way of Alexander Litvinenko.
VB
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This is why the little glass tubes are more popular now, they have a useful life-expectancy of around 20-25 years (reported anecdotally - āmy watch is too dim to read at night, wot do?ā), then itās relatively easy to pry them off a dial and put new ones in their place. In a reversal of the situation with the old Radium dials, I believe the phosphorescents used nowadays have a longer life than the emitter.
The tritium is far more valuable to a watch maker if it is no longer glowing and old. You can repair old dials and hands with the stuff and make valuable watches even more so.
It phosphoresces after exposure to UV light which fake stuff and modern versions donāt. I saw a small old vial of the stuff from the 70s sell for Ā£6000.
The glass tube stuff is to keep within the military regulations of the USA, otherwise no radioactive dials at all. The MOD gave up on them in favour of modern lume and digital stuff ages ago.
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I have just addressed the Wyre Forest district council overview and scrutiny committee about their PSPO dog walking limit.
They are now dancing on the head of a pin trying to avoid answering my questions and making a decision. Predictably of course.
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Well the recommendation was proposed and carried to recommend raising the limit on the number of permitted dogs to be walked in public from 3 to 6. Letās see what cabinet decideā¦
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i have had my final consultation today, surprisingly i have 8 weeks pay to sit on my arse till i start the new job, unfortunately the house is exchanging tomorrow completing next week, my last day at work.
tbh looking forward to working with my bezy again knocking shit around on the house
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Cosidering it was a committee decision I was expecting them to approve 3.6 dogs.
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theyāll now bring in a team of consultants for 6 months to define what a dog is
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Brilliant - where did you buy it btw 
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Iād look it up, but Iāve gone blind since I got itā¦
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Hence why the buttons are so big 
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Wrist RSIs mean Iām mostly just smashing my forehead onto the āPornā key nowadaysā¦
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Needs a bigger screen
Isnāt your car new? What does it need?
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