Xrays and scopes

[Mark Fortune]

somethings been bugging me for a little while...

given that I have a tektronics 549 storage scope from around the 1950's
(in good working order).. is there any danger of getting a faceful of
harmful x-ray radiation every time I look at the scope?

 

[Jim Yanik]

Mark Fortune <mark@fortrex.nospam.co.uk> wrote in
news:456cd516$0$2437$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk:

somethings been bugging me for a little while...

given that I have a tektronics 549 storage scope from around the 1950's
(in good working order).. is there any danger of getting a faceful of
harmful x-ray radiation every time I look at the scope?

I doubt the anode V is sufficient to generate X-rays.

I suppose you could test by wrapping a piece of unexposed high speed B&W
photo film in a light-tight wrap,perhaps of aluminum foil,and place in
front of the scope CRT face for some length of time,then develop the film
to see if it's fogged.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

 

[Boris Mohar]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:37:32 +0000, Mark Fortune <mark@fortrex.nospam.co.uk>
wrote:

somethings been bugging me for a little while...

given that I have a tektronics 549 storage scope from around the 1950's
(in good working order).. is there any danger of getting a faceful of
harmful x-ray radiation every time I look at the scope?

No.
--

Boris Mohar



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[Hugh Prescott]

Mark Fortune wrote:

somethings been bugging me for a little while...

given that I have a tektronics 549 storage scope from around the 1950's
(in good working order).. is there any danger of getting a faceful of
harmful x-ray radiation every time I look at the scope?

Nope

None if it is working properly. The high voltages are not high enough to
X-Rays strong enough to get out of the tube.

Hugh
Old Rad Safety guy

 

[Mark Fortune]

Hugh Prescott wrote:

Mark Fortune wrote:

somethings been bugging me for a little while...

given that I have a tektronics 549 storage scope from around the
1950's (in good working order).. is there any danger of getting a
faceful of harmful x-ray radiation every time I look at the scope?



Nope

None if it is working properly. The high voltages are not high enough to
X-Rays strong enough to get out of the tube.

Hugh
Old Rad Safety guy

Thats good to know. I may still try the photopaper wrapped in tinfoil
idea of jims though, just out of curiosity

Ordinarily I wouldnt worry too much... its just this thing is from an
era where not a lot was known about the side effects of x-rays...

thanks for all the replies.