Searching For Radioactive Antiques in Bishop
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2022
- Went looking for some radioactive antiques in Bishop California as I was passing through. Like most places I check I found some hot items.
I sometimes sell what I find on uraniumstore.com
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I love hunting for radioactive antiques and artefacts. I always found it very relaxing and satisfying
Before I was searching for radioactive items I hardly went to antique shops. Now that I’m looking for this stuff I really enjoy antique shops.
It’s very addictive ‼️the faster the beep the bigger the trill‼️😂😂😂😂
Certainly can be satisfying but often results in disappointment when I don't find anything interesting, just the odd bit of bland Uranium glass.
Not sure that I find it relaxing either, when the heart rate & pulse rises in expectation of finding something nice...🤣
@@ajacks1349 it does get exciting sometimes.
Always love watching these videos, maybe you could create a series on visiting antique shops for radioactive items :D
On this trip I hit a couple other antique shops along with some public spaces that have a bunch of radioactive tiles in them. Next video will be about an atomic legacy site.
Radioactive Drew i agree the radioactive antique videos I think are one of the best!
@@rickduncan692 more are coming.
My visits to antique shops will never be the same thanks to your video. Just picked up a Mazar PRM-9000. Will have to take it to my local antique market 😊
Some white clays used to make tiles and other ceramic products contain low levels of thorium and will register above background levels. You won't find much that is spicy in a plain white, but white ceramics that register several times above background are out there.
Love the Bon Iver soundtrack.
I have that exact same bowl at 5:30. Take two salad plates and flip one upside down and put them together with the bowl inside and the radiation is almost perfectly contained. PS, the other fiesta ware is good for blocking the radioactive fiestaware.
That persimmon Fiestaware made that Geiger counter scream!
Your antique store videos are super helpful! I have a cheaper GMC 320+ detector. It doesn't do alpha radiation, so my counts are different. Because you tested common items like fiesta, I can test the same items I find and compare my counts. On the plain flat fiesta dishes I tend to get up to around 2600 CPM. You are getting 34.3k CPM, so now I know that your detector is more sensitive than mine by a factor 13.2 (at least when it comes to uranium glazes).
My hottest dish is a small unmarked orange saucer (maybe from a company called Red Wing? Just a guess... other radioactive "Red Wing" dishes were nearby) - it looks like there is a slight indentation where a teacup could be placed. My detector gets up to 3300 CPM on that so yours would likely be at 43.5k CPM.
Also, I heard that the radioactive orange fiesta has "fiesta" with a lowercase "f", whereas the newer uppercase "F" Fiesta is the non-radioactive type.
First time I’ve heard that about Fiesta. But that kind of sounds right based off of what I have found.
I've gotten so many free things doing this - usually they ask what it means and once you tell them it's radioactive, they can't get rid of it fast enough 😂
Great video ‼️✌🏽🙏thanks. I had to stop collecting because my collection is way too big and dangerous ‼️
Yeah, mine is getting pretty big as well. But I sell some of the pieces I find. So it all balances out.
Same here...difficult to know WHEN to stop...🤣
I must take my counter next time I go to my local antique shop! I've never heard mine click more than a few times a second.
I find so many radioactive items at antique shops.
I found a 1920's slip shade chandelier made of Amber colored Uranium glass. It glows green under UV. Who knew. It is a stunning piece. It wasn't cheap. You should add UV flashlight to your hunting. Strangely, natural Amber glows under UV light. Until today, I never looked for orange pottery ware. The yellow Uranium glass is pretty radioactive. But the radium dials on clocks! Whew! And the thorium gas mantles.
Just for effect to freak people out you should always put on surgical gloves when picking something up that triggers the detector
Next time I'm in bishop I'll definitely check it out must have driven past a hundred times and didn't know I've started collecting vintage fiestaware and uranium glass thanks Drew for the cool videos all those orange fiestaware ones I can't leave behind seems like lol
Yeah I had the same problem. Now I’m much more picky on what I get.
Right near Ridgecrest!
Ya when orange isn’t enough ‼️you have to go hard core ‼️radium is the real screamer‼️‼️😀
Oh I know all about radium. Found a bunch of radium aircraft dials at one place that were left outside to rot. The dials had been broken so all that radium dust was in the ground. Now that was a hot site.
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Because of the friability of the material, it's also the most dangerous to handle. For that reason I avoid it & only have a couple of watches & a couple of clocks with it...& they're kept well away from living areas.
A Jacks I feel they would be mostly safe if you put them in multiple plastic ziploc bags to keep radon and dust from getting out. The radiation still only goes a couple feet or so at any significant level I think. Just don’t wear the watches lol!
@@rickduncan692 Pretty sure radon can diffuse through plastic bags. Also the radon that comes off of uranium glazed ceramics is very little. Radium items give off a bunch of radon because in the decay chain radon is the next in line daughter when radium emits its radiation. If you are concerned about radon I would keep radioactive pieces in a garage or in a somewhat sealed display case.
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I love the red orange color of Fiesta ware
It is a really nice color. Even if I wasn't into collecting radioactive items I still would see the beauty in these pieces. I'm working on a video about tile tables that use radioactive glazes and those are works of art.
@@RadioactiveDrew I agree even if I didnt know it was radioactive I'd still collect it just for the looks, I cant wait to see the tile tables those sound awesome!
Really nice video. Sadly there are almost no antique shops in my region. Never found anything in the few that are here. I always check the flea markets, that's the only thing where I find something. Sadly so intense uranium glaze like fiesta ware is very rare here in Germany. I only saw things with a little bit Uranium glaze on them. The rest is often black, brown or white paint.
I think here in the states we have a lot of uranium glazed ceramics because there were a lot of manufacturers. The California area in the past was home to many of the ceramic manufacturers that used uranium in their glazes. But I’ve found these types of items almost everywhere on the western side of the country that I’ve explored.
From the European perspective check out ceramics from the old Czechoslovakia, as many were highly radioactive due to Uranium oxide glazes. I got a really strange looking large vase from there which screams loud through all the geiger muller counters...it's kept outside on the porch.
Also "Delft/West Raven cloisonne tiles" from the Netherlands can be fairly radioactive too & often seen on ebay, though fairly expensive.
@@ajacks1349 Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look for it. I live near the border of Germany to the Netherlands, so I'm there sometimes. I'll look if I can find one of them.
@@hannesk19 The most radioactive, like the other ceramics, are the tiles with deep, solid orange high opacity glaze. If the colouring is washy & not solid it's most probably not a Uranium glaze.
Anyway, let your GM counter be the guide...have fun.
I'm new to this channel, and find it facinating! The orange plates, would they be dangerous to eat from, if you had them and didn't know about the risk? I would guess over time it could be a concern?
Best wishes from Northern Norway :)
Putting food on these and then eating it? Probably no big deal. But if some of that glaze (even a tiny bit) would come off, it might end up in your body and that would be very concerning, as your body absorbs 100% of the alpha rays emitted by the uranium. So no, don't eat from the spicy, orange plate.
I know some people eat from them and are fine. As long as you don’t eat acidic foods off of them or use metal utensils I would imagine You would be okay. But it’s kind of one of those things…is it worth the risk.
Really pleasant video to watch, just found out the Geiger counter did not click under background, is that a built in function of the device?
Certain detectors can take a measurement of the background radiation and subtract it from readings. I don’t have mine setup this way because I’m always interested in knowing the background radiation.
Damn that meter is fast
That’s why I like it.
If you have a gamma spectrometer you can date the manufacturing of the orange stuff because anything postwar is going to have depleted U and anything prewar will have natural U. In fact maybe you don't even really need a spectrometer, since the coatings are more or less uniform in thickness you might be able to just detect the difference in overall activity with natural U being much higher than the depleted. The gubmint really wanted all that sweet, sweet 235 for....reasons.
I would like to do a video about this one day. Certain pieces you can know for a fact contain natural uranium not depleted uranium based on their year of manufacturing. I have a bunch of pieces that were never produced after the initial ban on uranium. So pretty safe to say those still have the .7% U-235 in them.
@@RadioactiveDrew Drew, can you tell us the best deal on radiation detector for detecting this type of thing. Thank you!
they should put radioactive stickers on those
Most of these places have no idea these items are radioactive. Also they aren’t dangerously radioactive.
Bishop is the closest town to the abandoned Tungsten mine I wrote about. Take 395 north about 10 miles turn off left to a trail head the Forest Service set up. Easier would be to ask in town at the Fish & Game (Wildlife) for directions.
I’ll have to check that out next time I’m in that area.
@@RadioactiveDrew If your into fishing the Bisop area has great, if not the best trout fishing in California.
I’ve heard. I haven’t been finishing in a while. I usually go up there to take pictures, hike around and camp. Most of the time I’m with people that want to just kick back and take some photos. I love the eastern Sierras.
@@RadioactiveDrew 👍👍
Did you check the yellow fiestaware plate at 7:00, as they're usually radioactive too, though significantly less than the orange?
Yeah, I checked that one. I do run into ones that are radioactive...but that one wasn't.
No dogs? Boo!!!! Great video though ☢️😊
Yeah, I can't have dogs in every video. But I'm sure some dogs will make it into future videos.
@@RadioactiveDrew I was referring to the sign on the door that said no dogs allowed.
A silent moment for the goodest bois and girls that can’t enter :(
@@MistressGlowWorm I thought you were talking about the video I did with a buddy of mine and his two dogs.
@@RadioactiveDrew Naw I was referring to the sign. I should’ve stated that in the beginning :(
But great video! That Fiestaware is cool but those prices are high though.
Sir try different geiger counter 👍👍👍
I’ll see what I can do.
Do you own a civil defense Geiger counter I’m just curious as I haven’t seen you use a different Geiger counter than the one you always use. But I have one and I was wondering what you thought of those Geiger counters? They’re not the most sensitive but I think they’re built well and seem to last a long time. I think they also look cooler and sound cool aswell with a speaker.
I like using the Radeye B20 because of its size and sensitivity to alpha, beta and gamma radiation. The Civilian Defense detectors look pretty cool. But they seem pretty big and I've seen a lot of them that had a lot of problems with them. I'm sure that was due to neglect but it still shapes my opinion of them a bit.
Radioactive Drew yea I guess I got a little lucky mine didn’t work when I got it but all it needed was a new Geiger tube and it works pretty well! It isn’t calibrated tho so I can’t trust it’s 100 percent accurate on its readings yet. And I know they’re not sensitive at all to alpha but they measure beta and gamma and those are really the only radiation harmful to you from the outside of course alpha is very dangerous inside tho so it’s still very useful to have an alpha sensitive one but I like my cdv 700 for what it is.
@@RadioactiveDrew I use a standard yellow Terra-P
When you touch uranium glazed plates, does the alpha radiation stick to skin and clothes or scatter?
Alpha radiation turns into helium. That’s how all helium is made…by radioactive decay.
your geiger counter is very expensive
I know...but it works incredibly well.
Does eating off a radioactive plate make your food radioactive?
It doesn’t make your food radioactive. If you were using metal utensils and chipping off tiny pieces of the glaze then you might have been ingesting some very small bits of uranium.
Drew, is anything we have had in the microwave radioactive thereafter?
Microwaves are electromagnetic energy, like radio waves. They do not interact with the atomic nucleus and to not cause the nucleaus to become unstable - which is what causes nuclear radiation.
X-rays and gamma rays are also electromagnetic energy, but with much shorter wavelength (much higher frequency & energy). They have enough energy to break chemical bonds and do damage to DNA and other cellular structures, hence are very dangerous in large quantity.
I'm ignorant in the way of radioactivity levels, are they still safe? Anything to compare it to?
Everything is safe depending on the dose you receive from it. Uranium glazed ceramics has a decent amount of activity but typically nothing harmful...unless you were to take up a habit of eating the glaze or using something like these as a pillow for years and years.
@@RadioactiveDrew awesome thank you for the info!
@PhirstName no problem.
What if someone eats something on them
Do you think that the $375 fiestaware set would be purchased by people intending to actually use these pieces for their intended purpose?
I think it would be a collector that would buy a set like this. Maybe have it on display. Some people use some of their collections in daily life.
@@RadioactiveDrew Yes...& maybe come with a health warning...about the added risk on top of vintage ceramics already containing lead...
@@ajacks1349 I think the risk is pretty small using these but people should know what they are getting into with these pieces.
@@RadioactiveDrew Leaching in to food stuffs would be my only real concern, which has been proven to occur.
@@ajacks1349 oh I'm sure it does leach into food. I don't use mine to eat with.
Can these peaces be harmful?
Only if you ingested pieces of them over years. Usually people that ingest a lot of uranium over the course of years die from kidney failure.