Anybody ever killed a tritium light source?

[skunked]

I have a tritium powered keyring thing that has stopped glowing. I think I must have cracked the seal on the vial, any opinions?

 

[Kiessling]

I once cracked a vial by screwing down a LE into an Aleph2 head too deeply.
A crack, a strange smell, and no more glow. That's it.
bernie

 

[StarHalo]

A crack, a strange smell, and no more glow. That's it.

If this information leaks out to the urban legend folk, it will destroy several thousand "informational" posts about the dangers of tritium and how it must be severely regulated.

Please append your story with anecdotes regarding sudden changes in health, supernatural abilities, and/or unusually outsized insects or rodents. Thank you.

 

[greenLED]

A crack, a strange smell, and no more glow. That's it.

I noticed a tiny powdery "cloud" the one time I accidentally broke a vial.

My 6 fingers are still intact.

 

[climberkid]

My 6 fingers are still intact.

aaaaaaalmost didnt catch that one. tricky tricky.

 

[Isak Hawk]

One of the vials on my Orb Raw NS broke, though I have no idea how. It has since been replaced by a brighter "ice blue" version and sits protected beneath a layer of Norland 61 :thumbsup:

No serious side effects from the radiation, just glowing skin and a powerful craving for human flesh, though that's to be expected

 

[skunked]

So you can crack one of the vials, thought so. I am not worried about the radiation, at $50,000 an oz. there is just not that much tritium in the toy I paid 15 bucks for!

 

[Oznog]

Yeah I dropped one, inside the keychain housing, on a tiled bathroom floor. No external damage but the vial inside was broken and it was ruined.