Basement Arcades & Radiation Levels - *UPDATE*

when you pick up a new game and it's musty and moldy, scrape a line off with your debit card and snort it, gives you immunity to radiation.
 
Glad this was fake. I was like, dammit another thing I have to deal with (I have a whole radon remediation system in my basement).

Well done!
 
Doh! April Fooled Again.

They teach nuclear workers about ionizing radiation. It's part of NGET - Nuclear General Employee Training - everyone gets it.

You have to know what all the signs mean, where you can go, how much dose you can get.

There are a ton of regulations, plus utility limits to keep us out of trouble.

Your "faux" meter probably violates one of those regulations probably associated with accuracy of instruments, but if you aren't a nuclear facility, nobody will ever see it.

And by the way, don't buy Radiation Area signs and post them in your home as a joke. That is regulated and if the NRC catches wind of it, it won't go well.
 
Glad I only jumped in to this thread today and read through everything in one sitting. I would have bought in for sure. Great joke!
 
I was reading along and realized that since I spent the last 45 years inhaling solder smoke, washing parts in MEK, working in large EM fields and not eating right that................ radiation is the least of my worries.


Great prank sir.
Actually, MEK is some bad stuff. Known carcinogen. Be wary.
 
MEK is some great stuff! Like everything else you just need to handle it properly. I mean…even sunlight will kill you if you don't properly handle it! Or water! Drink too much water and you DIE!

Back to MEK. Other solvents just are not as effective. I'm glad that OSHA and EPA are looking out for us. But forbidding substances is IMHO not the answer.

Properly educating people is a better solution. Warn people loudly and clearly then let them go experiment with evolution by themselves! FAFODO!!!

And if they endanger someone else through their proud ignorance and defiance then HELP them to experience evolution. By fining and caging them heavily enough to eliminate their ability to affect the rest of humanity and the planet as a whole.
 
PS. Great prank!
I bought in heavily enough to start thinking about the questions to ask you. Then a couple of days passed and when I came back….you had already confessed. Good job!
 
Believe me i know. I worked in a machine shop and we cleaned parts with it. 35 years ago OSHA wasn't what it is today.
As a 35 year machine shop veteran, I can attest to the same experience/exposure...

And don't forget the 1,1,1 trichlor... the shop I served my apprenticeship in used a 1,1,1 Tclor based cutting fluid for 316 stainless and monel... we ordered it by the barrel... nothing worked better!

After it was unavailable in california, we looked for an alternative, but at the time nothing available was that good. We struggled through.

These days I use a water soluble oil mixed in water. I don't do any exotics anymore, but we still do tons of 303 & 316 stainless... and the new stuff works pretty good, and is loads safer for us biologic types

Thanks for listening!

Dylan
 
And by the way, don't buy Radiation Area signs and post them in your home as a joke. That is regulated and if the NRC catches wind of it, it won't go well.
I don't have any Radiation Area signs but I did pick up a vintage civil defense Fallout Shelter sign and put it on the door that leads from the finished area of the theater/arcade to the unfinished storage area which is completely underground with poured concrete walls and is, in fact, my most practical space as a fallout or storm shelter.
 

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I don't have any Radiation Area signs but I did pick up a vintage civil defense Fallout Shelter sign and put it on the door that leads from the finished area of the theater/arcade to the unfinished storage area which is completely underground with poured concrete walls and is, in fact, my most practical space as a fallout or storm shelter.
I like it! I actually did something similar at my place too. The door leading to the laundry/furnace room has a fallout shelter sign on the door
 
I also just realized...I have a 'waste bin' underneath my repair bench that is pretty close to my new 'radiation meter'. I'll empty it and see if this darn meter stops glowing RED! ;)

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