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Looks like those years of lead exposure have taken a toll on that poor guy.
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Funny but might not be crazy far from the truth. I wish we could find out but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he was in his mid 50's. Of course the likelihood is in addition to all the lead fumes he was exposed to he was smoking a couple packs of Camels in those days and having a few hard ones after work.
These are what some people call, The "Good Old Days"??????
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I just saw this photo of a woman's hand who painted clock dials in the 30's with paint that had radium in it.
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Worse yet is some would moisten their brushes with their tongues to "paint" the radium on watch dials and hands.
Used to bring my small geiger to antique/military collectible shows and shock the h-ll out of those with radioactive stuff like clocks, watches, aircraft instruments and compasses. Got some real deals (often free) on low level stuff from those who would not accept items in question were barely above background. Dumb ones would not accept fact that background radiation is natural. Have a nice collection of "donations". Look up Patek. Last edited by vintovka; 09-26-2021 at 06:55 PM. |
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UGH! I'm gonna need some eye bleach to get rid of this image.
Please, do NOT show the mouth of a person that moistened their tongue with salvia while using radium infused paint! I'll post this here. Interesting; though tragic reading. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ra...int/index.html
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https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-antiques my father had a couple oz of pure liquid mercury in a glass jar in our basement. no lid, just masking tape over the top. we'd tip the jar over and a couple drops would sneak by the tape, into a tray and rub it on pennies with our fingers. the pennies looked like dimes after that and my brother and i would spend our 'dimes'
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Was a Hazmat Engr for a couple years and things got a little too scary for me so Went to work with Solid Waste. Even there it was hairy. Our geigers went off all the time at landfills and transfer station. Seems stuff from 1900's is still "hot" like radioactive ceramic jars that drug stores sold water out of to dentists xray "sources" to chemo stuff. Love to switch mine to gamma and watch folks cover their privates when natural rays set it off.
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Damn I love these assembly line photos!
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Especially a factory dump truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And yet people still ***** about OSHA and the EPA for doing what they do to protect us. Do they sometimes over do it? Yeah, I suppose. Being truly safe isn't always cheap nor convenient but I'm still a big fan....occasionally through gritted teeth in my working years.
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Those assembly line photos are great, I'll being that one of the bare cab being put together more than a little bit.
I've got a friend who's dad worked in the anthophyllite and tremolite mine(s) in Idaho in the early 50's and his stories were about the same as the guys in the lead mines in Germany. He has had raspatory issues for years because of it. He said he and other kids actually played in piles of the stuff. All of us who are over about 65 can remember going in someone's house that had a big sheet of 1/2 inch or so thick Asbestos behind the wood cook stove in the kitchen or the wood/coal stove in the living room. Quite often your mom had a couple of small squares of it to set on the table or counter to put hot pots and pans on. The original siding on my mom's house was most likely Asbestos but it all got pulled off in 1968 when I was in Vietnam and they did a remodel on the house and added a dining room. That siding would be this stuff in this photo. I wish I had that roadster body now. I blew the dust out of brakes for years not knowing how nasty that stuff was and stopped when a coworker said it bothered his asthma. Now you have a tent to wash it off the backing plates in. Now I need to study that photo a bit.
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Yes 99% sure those are asbestos shingles? I find it ironic asbestos was mined here at the Copperopolis mine for decades and then when asbestos was finally deemed a "hazardous waste" they dumped it back from where it came from.
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Ohhhhh damn I love this one!
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After seeing these pics, I now know why it's so difficult to replace the rear floors in panels and Suburbans. The entire vehicle was literally built around it.
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Great pics. The hand work to assemble them was and is amazing!!
Again just seeing the floors makes my back ache!!! Even at 19 having to sleep (or try to) on a 2 week trip from LA to Sf to NY in a 52 suburban in just a sleeping bag was brutal. |
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![]() Notice the exterior light in the back of the cab? I've never seen that... That's actually for the interior dome light. The top roof skin is not in yet. |
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funny seeing all those manual spot welders hanging for 2 operators to use
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