Tritium

The radiation is not strong enough to penetrate skin, but if you inhale the gas, it would be unhealthy.

The Type of radiation is not going to be able to penetrate far, most of the time the acrylic container will be enough to stop the radiation. If you do inhale the gas, which is the only way it can overcome the short range of effect, its passed out within 2 weeks, which is a very short time, with very localised effect only.

Radiation is something to be concerned about, but tritium (which exists naturally in the environment too), is not a very high risk source of radiation, and can quite easily be safely handled. The quantities involved are very small too.

some very nice lights and tritium there okwchin!

I have couple of the green ones from DX mounted on my bedside lights, they are very bright and a pink one from DX on my girls light the pink is not as bright as the green. It makes them easy to find in the pitch dark.

There are some very nice watches with tritium markers where "glow int the dark" markers usually are.

Really easy to read at night and they don't fade away in a couple hours like GITD stuff dies. Especially the ones made by Luminox

Do you own a GITD like this?

Do trits give enough light to be usefull other than being seen?

For those in Europe it might be interesting that I bought my tritium here:

They have both vials and keyring fobs. Quality is good, shipping is very fast. Less than a week from UK to me in Germany.

If you break one, don't worry. Since Tritium is basically hydrogen, it is diluted almost instantaneously because of the high diffusion rate of hydrogen (around 3 m/s). So just air your room and you are fine.

Very nice pics, everyone! Keep 'em coming :)

In the pictures the trit vials don't seem to be in a container am i right?

anyone has any idea where i could buy some protective encasing for 4mm x 25mm

Another EDCFer, eh? mooshisho, too I believe (or else someone over there has the same very unique user name). I wonder who else?

Over there and in every forum I'm in

I'm

jacktheclipper

( Usually seen wherever paracord is found . )

Nice. I've always wondered what percentage of BLFers are strictly flashlight guys/gals verses EDC gear hoarders. "T.H.Cone" BTW. Only because "cone" by itself was already in use and I signed up there after here so... Oh, well.

tritium is good, glows all the time, and therefore can always be read in the dark, even without external charging. the better gitd is brighter when charged, but does fade. luminox uses t25 tritium, which until fairly recently, is all that could be brought into the US. now however, ball, deep blue, and most recently one model by android use t100 tritium, and the difference is amazing. MUCH brighter than luminox, or any t25 tritium tubes.

Well, they also sell Glowrings where the tritium vial is encased in clear acrylic (it's kinda hard to see because the picture is so dark, but the row at the bottom consists of glowrings).

There is also this glow fob, and the same shop also sells a kit to konvert it from GITD to tritium vial:

Rather pricey though, and no guarantee thet a 4x25 mm vial will fit.

You could build a casing yourself, for example with some acrylic tube from ebay and a bit of clear epoxy to seal the tube. Take a keyring from a fauxton, drill a hole through the tube and your done.

If you want to get fancy, you can fill all the interior of the acrylic tube with Norland 61, a one component UV-light activated mil-spec glue for lenses and optical components. Very expensive (1 ml about 10$ at cpf marketplace), but cures crystal clear (or so they say, haven't bought any of the stuff yet).

Hope this helps.

I contacted the local nuclear facility about buying tritium. Now my phone is tapped and I think I am being followed

L O L

Wait till they discover the many packages you are receiving. Sharp aluminum pieces, stainless steel tubular canisters, dangerous explosive material encased in cylindrical cells, and suspicious electronic chips. You're in big trouble now.

He ships worldwide but the site is not really clear, you can pay with paypal only with insurance postage and shipping cost are quite high. Not a big deal...

Say the company name over and over.....

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Here's Norman Bates:

By the way, I converted the comic strip to grayscale because it was gory.

I like to think that Hitchcock would have been proud. :)