Hi Joon, I really admire your work on servicing vintage timepieces! I’ve recently started exploring this as a hobby, so I have so many questions to ask! I’m particularly curious about the safety precautions you take when dealing with vintage lume. As you mentioned, it seems like radium is used, and I’ve read that radium gas can be quite dangerous if inhaled. Did you wear a mask or take any other safety measures? Also, do you use a Geiger counter to check if a watch has radioactive lume? Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. I am no expert in this topic by any means, but I've read Radioactive Lumes, which are pretty common among vintage watches, can be somewhat hazardous if inhaled or if not disposed of properly. I usually submerge the entire hand in an Isopropyl alcohol, which is placed in a disposable small plastic container with a lid, and use a fine tip tweezer to "break" the lume so that the radioactive lume particles can dissolve inside the alcohol solution rather than become airborne. Once the lume particles are off the hands, I take the hands out and clean them in distilled water, then again with fresh alcohol. The plastic case with alcohol and old lume is disposed of accordingly. I guess it depends on the volume and amount of time you work with vintage lumens, but I have read that as a hobbyist, one must not worry about health hazards as long as one takes precautions. And yes, I wear a dust mask when working with vintage lume. But no, I do not have the Geiger counter, but I may get one for fun in the future!
Hello, I could clean this particular dial to make it brighter and new (as I have tried on other Junghans dial like this one), but I like the vintage patina on this particular watch. On some dials (not this one), the logo is printed on top of the transparent lacquer so it is risky to clean the dial because you can easily erase the prints on the dial as you clean it. Anyhow, I usually stay away from cleaning the dials because it is risky and It is an artform that I am not familiar with at all. Thanks!
Hi Joon, I really admire your work on servicing vintage timepieces! I’ve recently started exploring this as a hobby, so I have so many questions to ask!
I’m particularly curious about the safety precautions you take when dealing with vintage lume. As you mentioned, it seems like radium is used, and I’ve read that radium gas can be quite dangerous if inhaled. Did you wear a mask or take any other safety measures?
Also, do you use a Geiger counter to check if a watch has radioactive lume? Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. I am no expert in this topic by any means, but I've read Radioactive Lumes, which are pretty common among vintage watches, can be somewhat hazardous if inhaled or if not disposed of properly. I usually submerge the entire hand in an Isopropyl alcohol, which is placed in a disposable small plastic container with a lid, and use a fine tip tweezer to "break" the lume so that the radioactive lume particles can dissolve inside the alcohol solution rather than become airborne. Once the lume particles are off the hands, I take the hands out and clean them in distilled water, then again with fresh alcohol. The plastic case with alcohol and old lume is disposed of accordingly. I guess it depends on the volume and amount of time you work with vintage lumens, but I have read that as a hobbyist, one must not worry about health hazards as long as one takes precautions. And yes, I wear a dust mask when working with vintage lume. But no, I do not have the Geiger counter, but I may get one for fun in the future!
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Thank you! Cheers!
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why you dint clean that numbers dail
Hello, I could clean this particular dial to make it brighter and new (as I have tried on other Junghans dial like this one), but I like the vintage patina on this particular watch. On some dials (not this one), the logo is printed on top of the transparent lacquer so it is risky to clean the dial because you can easily erase the prints on the dial as you clean it. Anyhow, I usually stay away from cleaning the dials because it is risky and It is an artform that I am not familiar with at all. Thanks!
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