Help please. Green glowing thing

[sandsnakes]

I have seen knives with a little glowing green cell on them. Who makes the knives and whats the glowing thing called and where can I get them? Oh yes how long do they glow for and do they need recharging etc, etc.


Sandsnakes

 

[Forest fella]

there called Tritium H-3 and have a look at Farid knives site for more info

 

[ANDYRAF]

Just a friendly warning tritium is radio-active Isotope although not too dangerous externally if ingested or inhaled can cause major damage to internal organs. Usually packaged in a glass vial and then embedded into a resin or other medium, it can still escape if treated roughly. It is used by the military for weapon sights etc. and the safety precautions are quite rigorous. Sorry to be a downer but that is dangerous stuff.

Andy

 

[JohnC]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-g-PHOSPHO...57738QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

I bought some of this powder to mix into resin etc that may be a bit safer, although its the charge up. glow for a few hours stuff..

 

[brancho]

Just a friendly warning tritium is radio-active Isotope although not too dangerous externally if ingested or inhaled can cause major damage to internal organs. Usually packaged in a glass vial and then embedded into a resin or other medium, it can still escape if treated roughly. It is used by the military for weapon sights etc. and the safety precautions are quite rigorous. Sorry to be a downer but that is dangerous stuff.

Even more so when it is in Nuclear Waste:theyareon

 

[gregorach]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-5-g-PHOSPHO...57738QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

I bought some of this powder to mix into resin etc that may be a bit safer, although its the charge up. glow for a few hours stuff..

Nice stuff, but it kinda defeats the object of tritium - it just keeps glowing. For years. Very handy for finding stuff in the dark...

And hey, it's perfectly safe as long as you don't ingest or inhale it.

 

[sandsnakes]

The idea is to be able to find valuable objects/records in the dark if there is a power cut or fire. Soo I need 24hr glow and not the rechargeable kind.

So radioactive glowing thing it is

 

[maddave]

Dave Budd does a few with GTLS inserts. PM him on this forum The inserts have a ten year life approx and do not need charging

Hope this helps

 

[Salix]

You can get them as little key ring thingy's off ebay..........i got one, it's great for finding my pick up keys, as i lose them all the time................oh and i aint dead yet...............

 

[IanM]

Try your local fishing shop, float bobbers.

Two types, miniature Cyalume tubes and what you want, the Tritium glow tubes. The last I bought were £5.99 for two.

Restricted in the US but they are perfectly safe. The amount of tritium in them is trivial and you would need to inhale the contents of hundreds of them all at once to have any problem.

 

[Jared]

www.dealextreme.com sell the mini keyring tritium vials. http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.tritium

If just want to the raw vial, there is usually a few people on http://www.candlepowerforums.com that sell them.

 

[bikething]

why not attach a tritium keyring to a torch and use the torch to find the rest of your stuff??

 

[MikeE]

Dave Budd only uses the mil spec tritium I believe and that has a 15yr life!

 

[LazySod]

I bought one of the ten year glow in the dark keyrings off eBay, took it apart and ended up with just the sealed glass tube isotope.

Now, I have a blackout blind in my bedroom cos i wake at the first sniff of daylight, and i couldn't get to sleep with this thing glowing bright blue on my bedside cabinet.

Search eBay for 'isotope', in the fishing section.