You can really cut them? I thought the gas would escape? would I use a butane torch to cut them or something? Sounds fun.
I researched about the radiation exposure from tritium, and it is not as bad as it looks.
same here. I will stick to researching better parts to build smaller Battery-powered glow tubes.
I am currently testing some smaller versions of my Glow tube used on my Hand-Built light, using two Cr2032 cells on one, and four LR41 cells with another, and three LR44 cells in a third, with smaller low-power LEDs and higher resistance resistors. ( so far have 34 days running on a keychain-sized version using LR41s glowing a Green LED.)
Man that pointed tip on the 6x15 is a bummer, otherwise that’d be a good size.
I have trits in everything, like everything cool they’re expensive but whatever, it’s my money. I’ve made numerous lights, knife scales, made my own rifle sight, they really are useful is some applications (but mostly they’re cosmetic).
The reason is lawsuits. If some fool sticks a sharpened pencil in his ear and hits it with a hammer the manufacturer gets sued for not having a warning label telling users not to do that.
i was reffering to the tips above to cut them into size…
(some fool may read and try it…)
IF the vial is not illegal (means limited in ammount of gas) it takes 7 to get a allowed year dose of radiation…
but there are a lot with higher dose in it (cause its brighter then ;))
i worked as radiation safety guy in our company and the point is to avoid as much extra ratiation (to what you get from environment or flying anyway) on top as possible.
-> radiation damages your body :
depending on the dose (which sums up until the point your body cant repair all the tiny damages to get ill)
maybe 1 (one) silly particle damages your DNA by accident and you get cancer…
Cause it’s sticking way out basically preventing any sort of flush mount job where you make a hole/cavity for the vial to fit in to then encase it in norland.