I'm back from dinner, the pressure has only changed 2/10 of an inch in 2 hours. this is without the radon in the picture. I'm opening the valve up to start...
This is the thinnest metal ever tested here. Titanium foil. 29.6 mm X 29.6 mm, less than 0.001 mm thick, weighs 0.054 grams. Anyone want to calculate the...
With an appropriate box of hot rocks in the trunk we drove the Yellow Cake Road (Highway 32) that ran between the uranium mines at Elliot Lake and Bancroft to...
Ok, first of all, my Resolving Time Set was purchased way back in 2004, so now instead of having 10 uCi Tl-204, there is only just over 2 uCi left. While this...
Can't tell the scale from the photo, but it looks just like the ground hog that I took a shot at this morning in the back yard. A ground hog is about the size...
Auction Thursday: http://www.sbmac.com/auctions/faircloth/faircloth1.html Looks like some good machinery, if you are close enough to go pick it up. -- Nick A ...
Anyone have a digital copy or link to: Report No. 049 - Structural Shielding Design and Evaluation for Medical Use of X Rays and Gamma Rays of Energies up to...
Recently it came up here that some of India's power plants were shutdown due to a drought. Now here in the USA we had one shutdown due to too warm of water....
A few months ago there was some interesting discussion here about collecting radioactive minerals near Bancroft ,Ontario, Canada, the home of several of the...
Making a small Home Lab vacuum chamber from a kitchen pot. Following the dimensions given for the Ortec Model 807 Vacuum Chamber/ It is a Vollrath Bain Marie...
Hi (once again), Â THANK YOU LUUK! Â I am one of the lucky recipients of Luuk's kind generosity in that I am getting one of the CsL crystals. This will be...
Hi again, Â Does anyone know if PRA will work on Windows Embedded 7 Compact? There are some very inexpensive net books out there and I thought that would be...
Tupperware material worked the best, blocked the least radiation. This model fits a 2" NaI(Tl), 44-10 etc. and will allow a 3" Monoline to be inserted about...
My Take on Universal Geiger Platform UGP CP/M uSv Calibration Detector: Monitor 4 EC (energy compensated tin sidewall) Source: Thoriated Mantle in Baggie...
Miguel, First of all, thanks for writing a sharing UGP! In your instructions, you suggest making the baud rate compatible with the pulse width. "You need to...
Marinelli Beakers are used for wet or dry bulk sample rad testing. The soil, fertilizer, food etc. is weighed then put into the beaker. In the bottom is a...
Hi: Has anyone had any luck with a generic semiconductor device as a "sensitive" detector ? I remember reading about PIN diodes or an array of pin diodes as a...
I finally finished my brohogan geiger counter with LND 7317 pancake tube. I had it at a local frozen yogurt shop last night, and it was on when I set it on the...
Hello, And so I am stuck in my hotel for eight days on a business trip. I walk into the place and slap my Geiger counter down on the table and fire it up......
Any users out there of Geiger Graph or RAD OSX? I am trying to get the Brohogan kit to work with them via USB or 3.5mm cable. I am waiting for my delivery of...
Since the alpha present spec experiments will be carried out in the tiny upstairs lab (closet), we decided on a dry vacuum pump, one small enough to move about...
Chris, I have some lab space opening up......... A whole small outbuilding building heat/air/it's own electric supply (transformer right outside the door) 24/7...
Hi: Â Does anyone have a clue what this device is ? There are three connectors. One is a female BNC. One is a connector similar to a BNC but I think it is a HV...
Hello to everyone it has been quite some time since I have posted on the forum, I hope everyone is doing well. Both the GammaRae II and the RadEye PRD are very...
Hi: Looking for a tough, waterproof plastic to fabricate the beta windows of a probe. Among the things I have looked at so far are UHDPE and PVC sheet in the...
sorry, I hope no one ran out and got an old phone. I misjudged by a fraction the measurment of the pancake. ir woukd need probably ro be reamed out a tiney...
I'm secretly going to make a stealth probe. I had an old style touch tone phone, large black. I took the goodies out of the hand set and am going to install...
Thank you Dave and Geo. I knew about NaI(Tl) scintillators and was pretty sure it wasn't used in plastic as a dopant. Been spending the last several minutes...
