I work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation & I appreciate your videos showing people the true reality of radioactive elements. You are spreading truth and that’s what people need to see.
1440 or 7440 is the catalogue/order number of the manufacturer for that piece. The letter Z is missing from the lettering. Bregenz is a city in Austria.
Drew; Minute 5:15 The mark at the beer stein top or upper part is the official filling level. Since longer than a hundred years the filling level must be shown an accurate if the glas, bottle or here „the Stein“ is used in public serving. The customer shall have control not getting cheated. It says 0,5 Liter (half Liter) and the line of where the half Liter is.
I like to imagine that Drew's garage is slowly becoming a noticeable hotspot on the Radiation detection satellites as he slowly adds to his collection. :D
I've heard they use helicopters equipped with large scintillation probe panels to do grid surveys of metro areas but not heard about satellites before. I suppose if you had enough commonly found gamma emitters (like Radium/Thorium bearing objects).... then you might get noticed. U-glass and pottery doesn't emit enough gamma to get noticed, being mostly a low energy beta emitter (although high in the CPM sometimes). Low energy beta does not travel far enough through the air/walls/glass to the outside world so would not be easily detected.
@@nefariumxxx detection of ground radiation is definitely not possible from orbit. even a low flying gamma survey would never see something like a personal collection of items in a house and can only see LARGE accumulations of U and Th bearing minerals near the surface.
@@Muonium1 Yeah hopefully nobody would be dumb enough to hoard enough material but we get all sorts of weirdos in the hobby. There have been some irresponsible sellers hawking thorium powder for quack magical healing powers which have been recently shut down by the NRC. They imported way too much of it and might have qualified for aerial detection. However we did not need helicopters to know that.
Lucky find. I found a Uranium-glazed beer stein a few years ago in Monterey at the Antique Mall. Pre-WWII based on the inscription, German military souvenir, apparently, honoring military service. It's the usual orange.
Hi Drew: The mark that you couldn’t identify carved into the pottery of the stein is called a fullstricht (fill line). It is required on all glassware used in commercial establishments that serve beverages under the “Schankgefäßeverordnung” law. The fill line shows where the container’s rated capacity indicated below the line is reached. The capacity marking is called the “Nenninhalt”. The indicated capacity of that stein is a half liter (pint). Glad to hear you grew up in Placerville. I went to school and later worked in Sacto and have many friends with deep roots in Placerville, Cameron Park, Jackson and the rest of the foothills. I can’t imagine how many “steins” I knocked back at Poor Red’s…. Oh well, we all move on, far from gold country.
I used to bring my cheap Soviet/Russian Kvarts DRSB-01 to antique shops and antique shows/flea markets and search for radioactive pieces. I'd sometimes get attention from the shop owners who always thought it was interesting. It's been over a decade since I last did that, seeing this video makes me want to go out and do it again one of these days.
Drew, You peaked my interest in your take of radiation. My dad worked for Atomic International in the sixties involved with the design of reactors in S. Cal. so I'm not afraid of radiation. I purchased a Radiacode 102 after watching several of your videos. I work in a dental school, my office across the hall from a panograph x-ray machine. There are 2 walls and a hallway between me and the radiation source. I was shocked when my alarms started going off. I found out that the machine was in use. Only minor radiation should pass one wall, not two. Sometimes, you learn new things in the strangest way. Enjoy your videos keep on doing them. I think they show people that radiation is something not to be afriad of.
I hope these videos do show people that radiation isn't something to be afraid of. Its always good to know what your exposure is when working around x-rays and other sources.
3:23 BREGENZ is in Austria 9:22 the dangerous aspect of those old radium dial watches and clocks, the "Glow" is long gone, but the radium will be there pretty much for ever
I have an electric coffe percolator with the cream and sugar bowls. It was made in the 1920s or 30s in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It is crazy off the charts. Im really glad i never used it. Im not sure if it would be good heating up liquids in it or not, but its over 300msv even on the inside.
@@418laylah If I'm not mistaken 300 microroentgen/h is something like roughly 0,003 millisievert/h. I'm not a physicist though so perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm or deny.
I picked up a few radioactive custard glass items from Empire Antiques when I was there over the summer. This past Halloween I lit them up with an LED black light strip arranged around my front door so that my candy dishes glowed green. I got quite a lot of "wow!" and "cool" remarks from the trick-or-treaters. Fun.
Hitlers Bier Krug (Krug in German) 😅 I find sooo much German stuff over here in Poland. My last find was a set of 8 Cognac glasses made from silver with the swastika on them. I asked a friend in Germany who knows all this stuff. They are from a German WW2 U boot (Submarine) THX for the nice vid and greets to MT ! 😘
@@RadioactiveDrew yup I know what you mean man! Whenever you come back out, I'd love to have a brew with radioactive Drew out of radioactive beer Stein 🍻 and talk radioactivity, I'm only a few minutes from Pville. 🤘
I absolutely love those videos Drew. I've been going antiquing with my geiger counter for about two years now and I've befriend the owners of the few antique shops around my area. They are now more like friends and always found my adventures interesting. (They call me Mr. Uranium.) Great find and great video Drew. More like these, they are wonderful! Cheers!
Its always good to get to know your local antique shops if you're into looking for this stuff. I'm working on some more antique videos...there will be a couple short ones that talk about some tiles I got off of ebay.
Great stuff Drew! love your videos. the other mark near the rim of beer stein looks like "0,5L" which in Europe might be 0.5 L as in liters. Have you ever found uranium glazed plates or cups that neared 100kcps ?
@@naughtiusmaximus830 In most places, you order a large or a small (glass of) beer ("ein großes Bier", "ein kleines Bier"), which would be 0.5 litres / 0.3 litres. In Bavaria, you order "eine Halbe" (half a litre) or "eine Maß" (a full litre glass).
Always enjoy and appreciate your commitment to making these videos and sharing them with us Drew! Thank You again for letting us experience your adventures brother! 👍
Its always nice to hear that. I find it funny that so many UA-camrs say "don't read the comments". I like reading the comments because the vast majority of people that watch these video have genuine questions about this subject or are just saying how much they enjoy the videos. Seems like there is a pretty good community here.
That lid is definitely tin. The discoloration is a patina due to copper oxidation. You see that a lot on older tin products that used higher amounts of copper, as copper was the cheaper metal for much of the 20th century.
Kool! The 0.5L with the line mark is mandatory (legal) mark for how much beer to that line. Half a litre in this case. When I lived in Germany during the end of the cold war, all bar and restaurant glassware had to have this capacity mark. I bet that stein could be from the war years! A german collector can probably tell you!
Yeah, I would like to know when it was made. Based on the uranium glaze I'm thinking 1930's, 1940's. But it could be more 50's or 60's because the uranium ban was really only happening in the US starting in 1943.
Bregenz is an Austrian town on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee). I've visited a few times. So this appears to be an Austrian mug. Oh and as mentioned below, that's the "0.5L" fill line. It's a thing in Europe.
When I was a kid, I used to think that you could smell radon in a home. I thought the polonium that radon decays to would have a rotten egg smell similar to sulfur. So I always worried if a basement had a stereotypical musty basement smell!
According to the green stains on the lid, it contains copper, and I would advise you to remove these stains using a glass brush or other mechanical means, not chemical, and then protect it from the environment using for example vaseline. If you don't remove the oxidation it may continue to eat through the lid over time. These stains may well be caused by food spillings, I managed to damage an antique kerosene stove I had used to make apple sauce without cleaning it immediately after use, and I wish to spare you the regret I have now... Nice find as always! Keep it up... The text on the side is an indication of the volume: 0,5 liters.
Hey drew, the 0.5 L i(liter) is the standard way Germans mark their drinkware. I guess they wanted to be sure they got all their money's worth. I saw some really fancy beer steins i n Germany and every one had the capacity mark. It must be by law.
*_Hi Drew, I just had an idea, it would be cool to use some of the uranium glass and the UV light as a backdrop for your youtube videos (when you do the talk segments) I think it would look so cool and distinct from other channels in a Drew kinda way, what do you think? Respond if you see this please!_*
I haven’t yet. It’s something I want to make a video about. From what I have seen the risk from inhaling radioactive isotopes from smoking is overblown. I mainly say this from stories I’ve seen on the subject.
I'm really curious on the ceramic glazing practices in the Europe area during that time period. I know in the US ceramics were glazed with uranium starting in the 1910's until 1943 when the government seized all uranium...and then started back up in the mid 1950's using depleted uranium.
How's taking a meter into a antique shop or a flea market? Ever got into any unconfortable situations because of it? I haven't taken mine anywhere since I fear how it would look of I keep testing kitchen ware with CDV700 😂
I’ve only been kicked out of a place once. That was in an old watch shop. The lady thought I was taking pictures when I was using my Radeye to scan stuff. When I told her I was looking for radioactive items she threatened to call the cops. She didn’t understand anything I was saying about radiation and radium paint.
@@RadioactiveDrew Sounds promising. It might look a little bit weird if they have no clue what I could be doing. But I bet I'll need to invest something more discrete if I don't want to start my future flea market visits with an educational confrontation on what's going to happen next 😄 THO it would be a good approach, but yet again, it might rase some unnecessary alarms
Hey drew i was wondering how does it feel to touch Radioactive feastaware and uranium glass is warm to the touch? Or not cause its what ive heard from some people.
How much uranium will be loosened and stuck on the finger by rubbing it? I'm sure it depends on the glaze composition. Worse is probably to cut your steak with a sharp knife on one of those uranium plates. It would be a fun video to do to check this subject btw. Of course lead is nasty to get in the body, but so is uranium.
The glaze is pretty much a glass containing the uranium oxide. Handling the stein shouldn’t free any of the uranium. But if you started scratching it with something metal I’m sure you could get some to come off. With the plates that are uranium glazed, using a knife or even metal utensils will free some of that uranium. I remember reading a paper that estimated the uranium ingestion from using these plates. I remember it being very small.
@@RadioactiveDrew The paper you are thinking of is "Leaching of uranium from glass and ceramic foodware and decorative items" by Landa et al. in J. Health Phys. '92. I recently talked with the author by email.
I usually try and keep it on the downlow. But if someone asks I tell them what I'm looking for and how its a great way to date certain objects. Most people find it extremely interesting.
I am pretty sure the lettering on the stein is not complete, and that it acutally should read "Bregenz" - which is the area where I live in the westernmost part of Austria. This is also next to Switzerland.
Drew! I'm an artist of exotic metals. I'm thinking of collecting thousands of expired (the older the better) smoke alarms that have accumulated neptunium. The reason being that neptunium is relatively stable and has a nice low melting point, I want to cast some things out of it. What are your thoughts? Perhaps there is a better way to obtain neptunium otherwise?
Well the amount of Am-241 is extremely small and the amount of Np-237 is even smaller in smoke detectors. Not to mention casting something out of this metal could be extremely dangerous for a couple reasons. I know a lot of the elements down by uranium and plutonium are pyrophoric, meaning they can catch fire in air if they are in a powder.
@@RadioactiveDrew Have you made any progress on figuring out if lead can be anodized? I love anodizing bismuth, but if lead can do the same then my audience for the art could really open up as it's so much cheaper (basically free for me at the shooting range).
@@ThePeterDislikeShow I haven't looked into it. I've been way too busy. I have another couple videos coming up where I plan on using the lead bricks again...and they are still bare lead.
I looked up the price of your meter and my jaw dropped! What would you recommend as an affordable alternative? I’ve recently begun collecting vintage watches - some of which are from the radium lume era. I also enjoy antiquing and own a few pieces of uranium glass. Would love to be better informed (and safe!). Thanks for your time. Love your videos.
It's a common misconception often repeated by people. Often enough that I have considered making a geiger counter probe from a fake plastic banana. SBM20 geiger tube would fit nicely inside. :) You might have to get a pallet stacked with full boxes of bananas in order to get anywhere near the same levels from the Potassium-40 content. Even then it would be pretty mild counts above background.
I suppose even though it's not true, at least they're not fear mongering about it. It's not dangerous unless you decide that glass should be a part of your diet.
I work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation & I appreciate your videos showing people the true reality of radioactive elements. You are spreading truth and that’s what people need to see.
Glad you appreciate it. From my experience, people that work in the industry really like what I'm doing with these videos.
That second mark could be .5 liter. Great video.
1440 or 7440 is the catalogue/order number of the manufacturer for that piece. The letter Z is missing from the lettering. Bregenz is a city in Austria.
That's what someone else was telling me.
Mark on the top of the stein looks like a "0.5 Liters" stamp.
Hey Drew. On your beer stein, the 0.5L mark indicates 1/2 litre capacity.
Drew; Minute 5:15 The mark at the beer stein top or upper part is the official filling level. Since longer than a hundred years the filling level must be shown an accurate if the glas, bottle or here „the Stein“ is used in public serving. The customer shall have control not getting cheated. It says 0,5 Liter (half Liter) and the line of where the half Liter is.
Thanks for that clarification. I thought it looked like 0.5L.
Totaly right.
I like to imagine that Drew's garage is slowly becoming a noticeable hotspot on the Radiation detection satellites as he slowly adds to his collection. :D
I've heard they use helicopters equipped with large scintillation probe panels to do grid surveys of metro areas but not heard about satellites before. I suppose if you had enough commonly found gamma emitters (like Radium/Thorium bearing objects).... then you might get noticed. U-glass and pottery doesn't emit enough gamma to get noticed, being mostly a low energy beta emitter (although high in the CPM sometimes). Low energy beta does not travel far enough through the air/walls/glass to the outside world so would not be easily detected.
@@nefariumxxx detection of ground radiation is definitely not possible from orbit. even a low flying gamma survey would never see something like a personal collection of items in a house and can only see LARGE accumulations of U and Th bearing minerals near the surface.
@@Muonium1 Yeah hopefully nobody would be dumb enough to hoard enough material but we get all sorts of weirdos in the hobby. There have been some irresponsible sellers hawking thorium powder for quack magical healing powers which have been recently shut down by the NRC. They imported way too much of it and might have qualified for aerial detection. However we did not need helicopters to know that.
Lucky find. I found a Uranium-glazed beer stein a few years ago in Monterey at the Antique Mall. Pre-WWII based on the inscription, German military souvenir, apparently, honoring military service. It's the usual orange.
I absolutely dislike antiques……. But radioactive antiques????? You’ve got my attention!!!
Yeah, I was never really into antique shops before. Now they are one of my favorite places to explore.
Bregenz refers to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregenz
Funny to find such a gem in CA!
love your channel and the impressing work you put in
His calm voice is realy relaxing for me.
All he makes for YT is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for me.
Would love to have some drinks with him.
Hi Drew:
The mark that you couldn’t identify carved into the pottery of the stein is called a fullstricht (fill line). It is required on all glassware used in commercial establishments that serve beverages under the “Schankgefäßeverordnung” law. The fill line shows where the container’s rated capacity indicated below the line is reached. The capacity marking is called the “Nenninhalt”. The indicated capacity of that stein is a half liter (pint).
Glad to hear you grew up in Placerville. I went to school and later worked in Sacto and have many friends with deep roots in Placerville, Cameron Park, Jackson and the rest of the foothills. I can’t imagine how many “steins” I knocked back at Poor Red’s…. Oh well, we all move on, far from gold country.
Its always funny hearing other people talk about that area. Lots of memories there.
7:01 the uv light on camera make it look like radeye b20 in green screen
Yeah, the iPhone doesn't like the UV light.
A little gem of a video about a little gem of a stein found in a little gem of a small town. Thanks.
No problem…glad you liked it.
Sees chipped bottom on plate immediately puts it back. Lol
I used to bring my cheap Soviet/Russian Kvarts DRSB-01 to antique shops and antique shows/flea markets and search for radioactive pieces. I'd sometimes get attention from the shop owners who always thought it was interesting. It's been over a decade since I last did that, seeing this video makes me want to go out and do it again one of these days.
Getting a glow after a couple of pints takes on a whole new meaning! 😊
Big hello from the Stein area. The second marking you showed, it is the fill level for 0.5 liter.
Gold Country peeps, represent!
Haha, cold spicy beer
I’ve found quite a few things, but never anything as unique as that! Amazing find
That’s why I had to buy it.
Yeah I remember you went through an antique shop a while back, and the reddish orange glaze was radioactive and some dishes
Drew, You peaked my interest in your take of radiation. My dad worked for Atomic International in the sixties involved with the design of reactors in S. Cal. so I'm not afraid of radiation. I purchased a Radiacode 102 after watching several of your videos. I work in a dental school, my office across the hall from a panograph x-ray machine. There are 2 walls and a hallway between me and the radiation source. I was shocked when my alarms started going off. I found out that the machine was in use. Only minor radiation should pass one wall, not two. Sometimes, you learn new things in the strangest way. Enjoy your videos keep on doing them. I think they show people that radiation is something not to be afriad of.
I hope these videos do show people that radiation isn't something to be afraid of. Its always good to know what your exposure is when working around x-rays and other sources.
3:23 BREGENZ is in Austria 9:22 the dangerous aspect of those old radium dial watches and clocks, the "Glow" is long gone, but the radium will be there pretty much for ever
I have an electric coffe percolator with the cream and sugar bowls. It was made in the 1920s or 30s in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It is crazy off the charts. Im really glad i never used it. Im not sure if it would be good heating up liquids in it or not, but its over 300msv even on the inside.
I kind of doubt it’s 300 mSv/hr. Even pure uranium metal can’t give that high of a dose rate. What detector were you using to get that number?
@@RadioactiveDrew it says mcR/h. I'm not sure what that is. I just checked.
It's at 295. I just checked and actually took a picture, but I'm not sure how to upload it on comments. Lol
@@418laylah If I'm not mistaken 300 microroentgen/h is something like roughly 0,003 millisievert/h. I'm not a physicist though so perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm or deny.
Super cool to see your radioactive adventures, Drew, keep it up and stay healthy!
Wow that red plate was pretty hot. I like how you gingerly set the other plates back on top of it lol
I try and be as careful with stuff as I can be.
That Big Ben is in nice condition. I love collecting those.
I think I have one in my collection. I usually don't pick them up because I find a lot.
@@RadioactiveDrew I would love a video on how you properly display these items.
@@jtcustomknives I've been thinking of doing a video about my main display.
Frigging sweet!
I picked up a few radioactive custard glass items from Empire Antiques when I was there over the summer. This past Halloween I lit them up with an LED black light strip arranged around my front door so that my candy dishes glowed green. I got quite a lot of "wow!" and "cool" remarks from the trick-or-treaters. Fun.
That does sound like a cool Halloween setup.
That plate was spicey! All that uranium glass glowing in the case looked really cool. That would make a nice display at home.
Hitlers Bier Krug (Krug in German) 😅
I find sooo much German stuff over here in Poland.
My last find was a set of 8 Cognac glasses made from silver with the swastika on them.
I asked a friend in Germany who knows all this stuff.
They are from a German WW2 U boot (Submarine)
THX for the nice vid and greets to MT ! 😘
I enjoyed your video Drew, interesting shops. I will have to obtain a detector and check my German Grandfather's beer stein collection he left to me.
You might find something in a collection.
Ahhh man! You were in my neck of the woods, dude! Glad you found something of interest 😁
I usually come back to P-ville to see my brothers and work on my truck. My brother is the only mechanic I trust.
@@RadioactiveDrew yup I know what you mean man! Whenever you come back out, I'd love to have a brew with radioactive Drew out of radioactive beer Stein 🍻 and talk radioactivity, I'm only a few minutes from Pville. 🤘
I absolutely love those videos Drew. I've been going antiquing with my geiger counter for about two years now and I've befriend the owners of the few antique shops around my area. They are now more like friends and always found my adventures interesting. (They call me Mr. Uranium.)
Great find and great video Drew. More like these, they are wonderful! Cheers!
Its always good to get to know your local antique shops if you're into looking for this stuff.
I'm working on some more antique videos...there will be a couple short ones that talk about some tiles I got off of ebay.
@@RadioactiveDrew Awesome. Keep it up Drew!
Great stuff Drew! love your videos. the other mark near the rim of beer stein looks like "0,5L" which in Europe might be 0.5 L as in liters. Have you ever found uranium glazed plates or cups that neared 100kcps ?
Half a liter? That’s not a beer that’s a chaser. What’s the word? Fluetje?
@@MooshYT that means he commented when it was unlisted, so he commented before it was made public, usually patrons who get early access.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 In most places, you order a large or a small (glass of) beer ("ein großes Bier", "ein kleines Bier"), which would be 0.5 litres / 0.3 litres. In Bavaria, you order "eine Halbe" (half a litre) or "eine Maß" (a full litre glass).
Correct, its a calibration mark at that mark the volume will be 0.5L before the head 😊
Even though you are in California, the town you are in kinda of makes me think of downtown Hamilton Montana. Great video as usual.
I think it's coming from the city called Bregenz (west Austria) where I am living too.
Great video, like always 😊
That's awesome. I was born in Placerville and live in the Sac area. I'll have to go up there and check some of that stuff out sometime.
Those antique shops are nice to check out. There are two or three others I didn't show that are on Main Street.
If you go to back Placerville, do ask to see the stump! It will be a great addition to a local video!
A geiger counter should be as popular as a fart in a bakery in one of those shops
Why?
Always enjoy and appreciate your commitment to making these videos and sharing them with us Drew! Thank You again for letting us experience your adventures brother! 👍
Its always nice to hear that. I find it funny that so many UA-camrs say "don't read the comments". I like reading the comments because the vast majority of people that watch these video have genuine questions about this subject or are just saying how much they enjoy the videos. Seems like there is a pretty good community here.
That red plate is Fiestaware made by the Homer Laughlin Company. The red pieces are the hottest. The company is still in business.
The upper marking is 0.5L it means the volume it can take. Beer is often sold as a half liter here in Europe👍
I guess it makes a lot of sense because .5L is 1 pint.
Always love to see new antiquing videos! There’s something very addictive about looking for radioactive antiques!
I love looking for radioactive antiques. One of my favorite things to do when I visit a new place is to look for local antique shops.
Awesome!!! :D I really like it when you go out and find old radioactive antiques! :)
Thanks...its a lot of fun.
@@RadioactiveDrew I agree! :D
That lid is definitely tin. The discoloration is a patina due to copper oxidation. You see that a lot on older tin products that used higher amounts of copper, as copper was the cheaper metal for much of the 20th century.
It felt pretty light.
What an awesome find!
That’s what I thought. Pretty happy with it in my collection.
Thank Drew ‼️always a pleasure to watch 👍✌🏽
Thanks for sharing.
No problem. Thanks for watching.
Now you just have to take it to the Pawn Stars, and they will bring an expert, then Rick will low ball you and say “ I’m taking all the risk”
Kool! The 0.5L with the line mark is mandatory (legal) mark for how much beer to that line. Half a litre in this case. When I lived in Germany during the end of the cold war, all bar and restaurant glassware had to have this capacity mark. I bet that stein could be from the war years! A german collector can probably tell you!
Yeah, I would like to know when it was made. Based on the uranium glaze I'm thinking 1930's, 1940's. But it could be more 50's or 60's because the uranium ban was really only happening in the US starting in 1943.
Bregenz is an Austrian town on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee). I've visited a few times. So this appears to be an Austrian mug. Oh and as mentioned below, that's the "0.5L" fill line. It's a thing in Europe.
Wish I'd known you were in the neighborhood. Some good places to eat and drink there.
The mystery mark near the top is .5L, definitely out of continental Europe.
When I was a kid, I used to think that you could smell radon in a home. I thought the polonium that radon decays to would have a rotten egg smell similar to sulfur. So I always worried if a basement had a stereotypical musty basement smell!
the History + science is great content! keep uo the great work!!!
According to the green stains on the lid, it contains copper, and I would advise you to remove these stains using a glass brush or other mechanical means, not chemical, and then protect it from the environment using for example vaseline. If you don't remove the oxidation it may continue to eat through the lid over time. These stains may well be caused by food spillings, I managed to damage an antique kerosene stove I had used to make apple sauce without cleaning it immediately after use, and I wish to spare you the regret I have now... Nice find as always! Keep it up... The text on the side is an indication of the volume: 0,5 liters.
I'll see if I can find a way to clean up that lid without harming it.
Great video. My inlaws have similar looking ceramic plates. Makes me wonder if they're radioactive too!
Nice find!
Art deco!
5:20 this mark looks like it's capacity "0.5L" half a litre which is slightly less than a pint. It would also suggest it originated from Europe
There's also the 1440 mark, which reminds of the patents code in Germany for the potteries of the Jasba Keramik brand.
I've read that the 1440 mark might have been a design number.
Pretty hot plate there... do you think it would keep your food warm longer? ;)
Not at all. Usually items that are radioactive enough to give off a lot of heat are very dangerous to be around.
@@RadioactiveDrew Yeah, my comment was more of a joke, but I bet some people think like that... ;)
Hey drew, the 0.5 L i(liter) is the standard way Germans mark their drinkware. I guess they wanted to be sure they got all their money's worth. I saw some really fancy beer steins i n Germany and every one had the capacity mark. It must be by law.
Some other people on here told me that the capacity mark is by law.
I'm sure it is.
@@RadioactiveDrew
7:00 maybe because it was powdered U238 in clear glass as opposed to U,238 in opaque paint ?
The marking on the side indicates it’s capacity. 0.5 Litres.
Did I hear very subtly another "Geiger Counter" ticking there in the background during both antique shop visits? A leg strapped Radiacode?
Yep, the Radiacode was in my pocket.
*_Hi Drew, I just had an idea, it would be cool to use some of the uranium glass and the UV light as a backdrop for your youtube videos (when you do the talk segments) I think it would look so cool and distinct from other channels in a Drew kinda way, what do you think? Respond if you see this please!_*
That would look pretty cool. I might try and do something like that when I do a video about UV lights.
Went to Hang Town to _hang_ around but ended up hanged.
The marking on the side is half (0.5) a litre
Have you tried measuring polonium in cigarettes yet? I want to see if organic Cuban cigars are safer in that regard.
I haven’t yet. It’s something I want to make a video about. From what I have seen the risk from inhaling radioactive isotopes from smoking is overblown. I mainly say this from stories I’ve seen on the subject.
the mark means 0,5l, which I would guess dates it to the 20th century, and probably the 1950ies...
I'm really curious on the ceramic glazing practices in the Europe area during that time period. I know in the US ceramics were glazed with uranium starting in the 1910's until 1943 when the government seized all uranium...and then started back up in the mid 1950's using depleted uranium.
the embossed lettering at the rim says 0.5L or half a liter which would make sense for a stein :)
Stamp at the top of the cup is a volume measurement 0.5L
How's taking a meter into a antique shop or a flea market? Ever got into any unconfortable situations because of it? I haven't taken mine anywhere since I fear how it would look of I keep testing kitchen ware with CDV700 😂
I’ve only been kicked out of a place once. That was in an old watch shop. The lady thought I was taking pictures when I was using my Radeye to scan stuff. When I told her I was looking for radioactive items she threatened to call the cops. She didn’t understand anything I was saying about radiation and radium paint.
@@RadioactiveDrew Sounds promising. It might look a little bit weird if they have no clue what I could be doing. But I bet I'll need to invest something more discrete if I don't want to start my future flea market visits with an educational confrontation on what's going to happen next 😄 THO it would be a good approach, but yet again, it might rase some unnecessary alarms
Hey drew i was wondering how does it feel to touch Radioactive feastaware and uranium glass is warm to the touch? Or not cause its what ive heard from some people.
There is no increase in temperature with these low activity items.
@@RadioactiveDrew thank you very much 👍
you can have a legit nuka cola now
How much uranium will be loosened and stuck on the finger by rubbing it? I'm sure it depends on the glaze composition. Worse is probably to cut your steak with a sharp knife on one of those uranium plates. It would be a fun video to do to check this subject btw. Of course lead is nasty to get in the body, but so is uranium.
The glaze is pretty much a glass containing the uranium oxide. Handling the stein shouldn’t free any of the uranium. But if you started scratching it with something metal I’m sure you could get some to come off. With the plates that are uranium glazed, using a knife or even metal utensils will free some of that uranium. I remember reading a paper that estimated the uranium ingestion from using these plates. I remember it being very small.
@@RadioactiveDrew The paper you are thinking of is "Leaching of uranium from glass and ceramic foodware and decorative items" by Landa et al. in J. Health Phys. '92. I recently talked with the author by email.
@Muonium1 that sounds familiar.
Did you draw any attention by shopping via a geiger counter? Or when you were that lovely detection sound?
I usually try and keep it on the downlow. But if someone asks I tell them what I'm looking for and how its a great way to date certain objects. Most people find it extremely interesting.
Looks like the mark says "0.5 L", maybe 0.5 liters? Very cool find!
Thanks.
I am pretty sure the lettering on the stein is not complete, and that it acutally should read "Bregenz" - which is the area where I live in the westernmost part of Austria. This is also next to Switzerland.
I'll have to check out that area next time I'm over in Austria...love visiting there.
@@RadioactiveDrew tell me when you are near, a chat and coffee is always an option
@Philippsalzgeber I’ll try and keep that in mind next time I’m there.
Drew! I'm an artist of exotic metals. I'm thinking of collecting thousands of expired (the older the better) smoke alarms that have accumulated neptunium. The reason being that neptunium is relatively stable and has a nice low melting point, I want to cast some things out of it. What are your thoughts? Perhaps there is a better way to obtain neptunium otherwise?
Well the amount of Am-241 is extremely small and the amount of Np-237 is even smaller in smoke detectors. Not to mention casting something out of this metal could be extremely dangerous for a couple reasons. I know a lot of the elements down by uranium and plutonium are pyrophoric, meaning they can catch fire in air if they are in a powder.
@@RadioactiveDrew I'm surprised about them being pyrophoric. I've always thought metals that far down would be extremely stable, similar to gold.
@@RadioactiveDrew Have you made any progress on figuring out if lead can be anodized? I love anodizing bismuth, but if lead can do the same then my audience for the art could really open up as it's so much cheaper (basically free for me at the shooting range).
@@ThePeterDislikeShow I haven't looked into it. I've been way too busy. I have another couple videos coming up where I plan on using the lead bricks again...and they are still bare lead.
Do you ever find any hot black glaze stuff
Judging from green colour on the lid there's oxidized copper on it.
Doesn't seem like copper. I was reading that some of the lids were made out of silver.
I looked up the price of your meter and my jaw dropped! What would you recommend as an affordable alternative? I’ve recently begun collecting vintage watches - some of which are from the radium lume era. I also enjoy antiquing and own a few pieces of uranium glass.
Would love to be better informed (and safe!). Thanks for your time. Love your videos.
That sign behind the uranium glass said it's less radiation than a banana. Surely that's not true, right?
Yeah, that’s totally false. Any one of these pieces is way more radioactive than a banana.
It's a common misconception often repeated by people. Often enough that I have considered making a geiger counter probe from a fake plastic banana. SBM20 geiger tube would fit nicely inside. :) You might have to get a pallet stacked with full boxes of bananas in order to get anywhere near the same levels from the Potassium-40 content. Even then it would be pretty mild counts above background.
@@nefariumxxx That would be pretty funny!
I suppose even though it's not true, at least they're not fear mongering about it. It's not dangerous unless you decide that glass should be a part of your diet.
@@danielschulz4930 : My GF likes it so far ..
Twas a good video
Thanks.
I think that's Hilter's mug
I think the mark says .5 liters
What is the framerate in the antique shop ? looks very jittery
is the lid magnetic?
What do the shop owners think????
The majority of them are curious about radiation. I've only been kicked out of two places.
Likely made in Germany as the mark at the top reads 0,5 liter
Can you review KC761 Chinese detector?
I found a hot milk glass beer stein from Germany
It is harder to find milk glass with U-oxide content and it will also glow in a nice ghostly color so maybe check it under UV.
0.5L volume?
Turns out that's what it is. I didn't know for sure.
0.5L for half a liter
Do any of these shop owners ever wonder what you're up to with the dosimeter in their shops?
They probably know what's going on.
Germans do 1 like a carrot. ^ but bigger.
So excited for some new content!
I love this channel, thank you!
And a merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thanks for that...Merry Christmas to you as well and your family.
The marking at the top of the edge 0.5 L simply means that it has a capacity of 1/2 liter 🍺
I kind of figured it must have been something like that.