steampunk crafting is...hot

[ironymaiden]

a jewelry maker discovers that she's using radioactive parts*

knowing how freaky people get about trace contaminants, it's probably worth checking out before selling pieces with old parts. is "not-radioactive" good marketing? hmm...





*(i'm guessing that sinthrex will inject some sanity here.)

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Great resource and good to know. Thanks!

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

Not really. I wish the vids weren't constructed for 'dramatic effect' as they obviously are. The RSO she was working with sounded uncomfortable about the whole thing. (I think his visit turned into something other than what he was expecting.)

Don't eat the hot bits. Don't use the hot bits in jewelery where the paint can come off and you can eat it/breathe it. If you think you have a hot bit, put it in a metal container that you can seal and wash your hands carefully after handling. (Or barring that, wrap in tinfoil)

That being said, none of the Radium Girls showed any symptoms unless they had >10^3 times background levels of Ra in their bodies.

[weezlgrrrl.livejournal.com]

Back when I was a teenager, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, enameled belts were HOT. They had an actual glass enamel "buckle," usually something pretty like a butterfly, and a "serpent chain" belt. Almost all of them came from China. Well, one day there was a massive recall of the things, because it turns out that the enamel had been irradiated to make it more clear and luminous, and it was still "hot." The good thing is, waistlines were so high in the early '80's that most of us probably got our stomachs nuked, not our girlie bits. That's better...I guess...