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Re: More information about carrying a sextant with radium
From: Paul Brewer
Date: 2013 Mar 17, 14:04 -0700
From: Paul Brewer
Date: 2013 Mar 17, 14:04 -0700
On this subject. I bought an old US bubble sextant from a chap in Oz. It took ages to arrive, then I got a very stern letter from the radiation safety people at Rotterdam. The bubble radium had set of an alarm from inside a shipping container.
They quarantined the container and the only way I could get the sextant was to get a museum to obtain an exception certificate.
Quite apart from the cost that means another old sextant is gone!
Paul.
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