More Elcan Q's
- Thread starter Plink
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.........and unless your shooting in low light (sorry but why) you don't really need it.
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- land of f-cktards
yeah if it holds a zero and has goods screws on it you should be ok ( I know of one who shoots service rifle with one and loves it )
Well, that was exactly my plan. I tried one out on an AR on Saturday, and I saw this one for sale on Sunday and grabbed it.
For all its detractors, I do love the FOV and think it will be just fine for service rifle.
For all its detractors, I do love the FOV and think it will be just fine for service rifle.
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- land of f-cktards
no amount of shooting or what ever bargain you get is not worth getting cancer leukimia etc play safecanucklehead
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I think people are overestimating the amount of tritium in an Elcan.
If you break the face of your watch with luminecient numbers, do you call a Hazmat team? Yeesh.
Agreed it's not best to rub the stuff on your nuts, but calling the area 'radioactive' after breaking a tritium vial is ridiculous.
Plink - keep in mind that the tritium in an Elcan is MUCH more dim than say a vial of tritium in a set of night sights. I thought mine was dim as well, but it's a 2003 production and from what I've read it's essentially the 'correct' brightness. It's not supposed to be a bright glowing dot.
I think Armament Technologies will do a refurb, but unless you've lost the nitrogen seal, it's not worth it just for the tritium.
If you break the face of your watch with luminecient numbers, do you call a Hazmat team? Yeesh.
Agreed it's not best to rub the stuff on your nuts, but calling the area 'radioactive' after breaking a tritium vial is ridiculous.
Plink - keep in mind that the tritium in an Elcan is MUCH more dim than say a vial of tritium in a set of night sights. I thought mine was dim as well, but it's a 2003 production and from what I've read it's essentially the 'correct' brightness. It's not supposed to be a bright glowing dot.
I think Armament Technologies will do a refurb, but unless you've lost the nitrogen seal, it's not worth it just for the tritium.
canucklehead said:
Agreed, the level of radioactive exposure from a tritium vial is less than the amount of radiation you receive doing a transatlantic flight. Just don't sprinkle your food with it systematically over a 6-month period and you just might survive.
Joking aside, I would imagine that something caustic would do a good job of reacting away any tritium. Convert the hydrogen paint to water and salts.X-man said:Yeesh! NOW He tells me!
....Does anybody have a recipe for removing tritium from a scrotum?
canucklehead said:
Yeah, mine is there, just faint. So maybe it's the way it is supposed to be anyways.
Oh well, as mentioned, I think I'll simply use it as is, don't do much shooting after dark anyways... unless there's a coyote or two up near the house.
Now, about this itching on my nutsack.............
canucklehead said:
Watch numbers and faces that glow in the dark now adays are not radioactive, they used to use radium in watches for military and for nurses. Sh*t loads of health problem, but this was like 50-60 years ago, people didn't know back then, think about the way they did atom bomb testing.
The danger of the radiation coming of Tritium is nothing, it is beta particle, won't travel very far and blocked easily by solid materials. The Problem is that Tritium is a radioactive isotope of Hydrogen, and Hydrogen is a gas. The main concern would be if you breathed the stuff it, the radiation would go to town on your inside.
I can't remember off the top of my head what the half life of Tritium is, but it is something like 10-15 years. Which is pretty short. Therefore I would venture a guess that a sight that used Tritium as an ilumanating agent would have a shelf life of maybe a deacde or two.
