[Noisebridge-discuss] mercury on the table?

[daniela Steinsapir]

 is anybody else interested in radiation?

 Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it to NB these days but soon.

D

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:

> This makes me curious.  What would be the source of the mercury from a Neon
> sign?  I always thought they were pretty safe.  (Well, other than from
> broken glass and stuff like that.)  It's my understanding that when they
> fill them with argon, they use trace amounts of mercury, that would be in
> the tubes, which would only escape if you broke one, right?
>
> Care to share this discovery with the rest of us?  Circuit hackers simply
> love neon sign transformers, so I think it'd be good to have this
> information disseminated.
>
> Christie
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Meredith made some discoveries that suggest the mercury came
>>  from that neon sign...our deaths are inevitable.
>>
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