Tritum Vials - where to buy ?

RamJet

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Hi I wonder where can I buy Tritum Vials

I'd like make some mods on my own, but it seems to me that they are impossible to buy.

Perhaps i should find an old tritum powered watch and try to extract vials using some sharp object (ie, razor)

please advice
BRDS
 

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Tritium vials are self luminescent vials. ;)
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Yes the vials use is a mildly radioactive gasseous form of tritium, only emitting weak beta radiation, too weak to penetrate skin or even a sheet of paper. ;)
 

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swissbianco said:
who has made it?? the swiss...:laughing:

I think I read something somewhere about tritium vials being first made at CERN, then mass manufactered elsewhere.

There is no arguing that Switzerland is a world leader in technology
 

pietruck

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So where do you get them?

And are they all so very very small?

What kind of pricing is reasonable?

Thanks

Ryan
 

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pietruck said:
So where do you get them?

And are they all so very very small?

What kind of pricing is reasonable?

Thanks

Ryan

you can get them from B@rt..
there's lots of different sizes...
they're a little pricey, but they glow for like 10 years!
 

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I just sent a PM to Bart, but maybe it would be good to have these answered here so he doesn't get all the same questions in PM's.
Not sure why you don't have a GB topic for these, but what is the availability, pricing, colors?

Are they highly visible from say 10 feet away in a dark room?

Are the colors made by putting the vials in a colored plastic tube?

Also how do these compare in brightness to the luminous sticks that you break and last a short while?
 

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I just sent you a PM, but I will answer your questions here as well. ;)

There isn't a GB for them because I have to order a substantial amount per size, so different sizes would become very expensive. :(
I ordered green, iceblue, darkblue and orange 1.55x5 mm vials, they 'should' be here in about 4 weeks. They will be $5.50 each.

Visibility: They are easily seen from 10 feet away in a dark room.

The colors are created by using different phosphors, not by colored plastic tubes. The vials are made from borosilicate glass.

Brightness compared to chemical lightsticks: I wouldn't know, I haven't used chemical lightsticks that size before. They will last a lot longer though... :grin2:
 

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Oh, ignore my PM.

So they are tiny little things, only a half of a centimeter (shorter than 1/4 inch) in length, and about the diameter of tritium gun sights?
 
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