This Common HOUSEHOLD ITEM Contains...☢ RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR WASTE!? ☢

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@stevegore4504 2 ай бұрын

You can get free smoke alarms at your local fire department. Great video Brad. Wonderful video for all of us. Thank you

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info

@av_oid 2 ай бұрын

Ionization-type smoke detectors that contain Americium are now not recommended, newer photoelectric smoke alarms are now preferred. Not because the ionization type are radioactive, but because they are slow to detect smoke from a smouldering fire, but quick to detect burnt toast. Photoelectric smoke alarms are better, but connected, mains-wired with built-in battery backup are the best option.

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

But both are great to have just in case

@Rr0gu3_5uture 2 ай бұрын

Over here in Scotland they changed the law so every house needs an interlinked heat, smoke and co2 alarm. If one goes off, they all go off! It's a fkin' nightmare!😂

@TheGuitologist 2 ай бұрын

Sounds EXPENSIVE. I guess they like it that way. Make it more expensive so more people find it harder to comply with the law. Genius. Leave it to the EU/UK.

@cantyouhearmeknocking1961 2 ай бұрын

@@TheGuitologist EUUK. Sounds like a curse word...

@cerberus50caldawg 2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine 4 or more of those starting chirping at 2am all over the house all at once!🙉

@Rr0gu3_5uture 2 ай бұрын

@@TheGuitologist Yep, I bought and installed them myself, and it cost around £100/$130, which wasn't too bad. But I only own a small two-bed property. I can only imagine the number of house-rich, cash-poor elderly folks and single women who got fleeced by unscrupulous tradesmen installing this BS. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I reckon the change in law-requiring an interlinked system-was a form of disguised regulatory overreach, designed specifically under the guise of safety to stop people from smoking cigarettes or weed in rental properties. I wouldn't put it past them, as a bunch of MSPs and MPs are landlords. Outside their government day jobs, most of these people earn all their money from dodgy property portfolios.

@AidanMacgregor-Personal 2 ай бұрын

@@Rr0gu3_5uture Weed does set off far too easily 😂

@christopherleubner6633 2 ай бұрын

The IC is a high gain elevtrometer with a few other functions. If you use an ion chamber instead of the comparison gigohm resistor, and put the resistor across the sense elements you could turn the detector into a high range radiation detector. ❤

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 2 ай бұрын

That’s cool

@tubesnstuff503 2 ай бұрын

electrometer? A JFET-input opamp or a CMOS input digital are also very high resistance but you'd need a special geiger-muller tube and high voltage supply to make a rad counter, I'm not aware of any simpler methods

@christopherleubner6633 2 ай бұрын

Amercium is made into the oxide that is mixed with gold as a binder. This is then made into foil that is bonded to pure silver or nickel foil. It is then pressed to make a thin layer of americium and gold over the foil and dots are punched from the strip and pressed into stainless steel source holders like the one inside your detector. The older pyratronics ones heve the source rather poorly mounted inside that are physically and radoiologically stronger. These also have a very sensitive thyratron tube inside that triggers at nanoampres.😮

@christopherleubner6633 2 ай бұрын

The switch had a plastic retainer that enables the alarm when removed. Used to prevent the batteries from being used while in the box.❤

@elit3darkness 2 ай бұрын

Convert an old smoke alarm into a sweet boutique guitar amp

@kristopherguilbault5428 2 ай бұрын

I saw a build video of someone turning a smoke detector into an overdrive pedal. :o it sounded sick too!! Like Stevie Ray Vaughan playing a 50s Fender Strat thru a Tubescreamer driving a hot 1960s Marshall 100 Super lead.... 🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

Or convert it into a radiation detector like an ion chamber or maybe even a diy radon detector from a smoke detector

@SolarSeeker45 2 ай бұрын

It's not waste if there's a use for it! If you look up cloud chamber videos you'll see that these sealed sources are directional and alpha particles are stopped by a few inches of air. So there's no health risk unless you start collecting hundreds of them and emptying the contents.

@krr104 2 ай бұрын

The alarms detect particulates in the that are indicative of smoke from a fire. Dust settling on the interior can trigger an alarm. My alarms did this in my new house as the drywall crew left a lot of dust around any openings. Important to note that they will detect condensation and temperature changes as well. Leaving a window or door open in winter near a detector can cause a false alarm.

@timmooney7528 2 ай бұрын

At a place I used to work at they they had a hazmat waste container for disposing batteries. I would imagine a scrap handler who dealt with batteries would also know how to handle low level rad waste.

@zombienoob410 2 ай бұрын

I put a new battery in one from 2010 and it made a puff of smoke so I took it apart, mine uses a led to sense smoke. The reason for the puff of smoke was the battery tab on the board broke and shorted out. After re soldering it works and I keep setting it off with flux when cleaning my iron. 🤣

@steveblease 2 ай бұрын

Even the ones you can change the batteries have 10 year expiry date.

@charlesb7831 2 ай бұрын

That IC chip has what we always called a " housing number " . You can't really find info on chips with them. Exactly what you said, it's proprietary or they don't want you finding the cross-reference chip/ part.

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

Any ideas what it might be?

@charlesb7831 2 ай бұрын

@Fixologist1 no , not off hand, I don't have access to the catalogs and tech books anymore , sorry Brad.

@w13rdguy 2 ай бұрын

100% you can make the piezo into a guitar pickup, especially in a cigar box.

@BockwinkleB 2 ай бұрын

Thought I was watching a Mark Dice video for a sec.

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

You should buy a radiacode

@bryandraughn9830 2 ай бұрын

I finally cleaned out my closet and threw away a bunch of salvaged electronic components and stuff. I couldn't believe how much there was.

@tubesnstuff503 2 ай бұрын

Lithium primary cells are not rechargeable. The two terminals on the piezo are for either self oscillation feedback, so the oscillator always resonates at its highest volume resonant frequency (like a quartz crystal) or maybe for a low and high volume option.

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

I had a note about it in the video, but it got lost in the final edit for some reason. I think the large area is for the buzzer alarm, the small area is for the chirp.

@plutoniumiscool 2 ай бұрын

17:10 The americium is in the silvery button at the center, care should be taken not to damage it.

@1683clifton 2 ай бұрын

I used to love reading aloud in school. They always thought I couldn't do it, but I always came out like Dee Snyder at the Congress thing. I like the way you read man.

@blkjckgtr3075 2 ай бұрын

Hi,Brad great info in Canada we have hard wired and battery smoke detectors some even speak in English and French.Also Carbon Monoxide detectors are manditory and could save your life,Cheers!

@markbratton111 2 ай бұрын

We have to take all electronic waste to a waste drop off for batteries ect., here in California.

@cantyouhearmeknocking1961 2 ай бұрын

The batteries would probably cost more than the alarm.

@banced1 2 ай бұрын

I believe it was over 20,000 of them.

@deandee8082 2 ай бұрын

FFTF was a breeder reactor, pretty trippy, I worked out at hanford on the #2 plant and would stop by and pick up a buddy at FFTF time to time, the containment walls around the reactors were massive, leaded concrete, no crushed rock, lead beads, bout the size of large peas.. thick like 4' ... was a crazy place.. pretty cool tho, I remember the MASSIVE Westinghouse generators in the #2 plant, 2 of em, the size of oh, 3-4 large locomotives each . . side by side ina massive room 8 stories ... ya lotta places to get lost in that plant . .

@anthonybush3134 Күн бұрын

You should buy a dremel with cutting attachments

@DavidSmith-dm8ew 2 ай бұрын

If you have a Geiger counter and you put it right up to the americium 241 you can register a reading around 0.80 ms, normal background radiation is 0.08 ms

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

What unit is ms do you mean uSv?

@DavidSmith-dm8ew 2 ай бұрын

@@The-One-and-Only100 Yeah that's it.

@jasonbates2687 2 ай бұрын

I pulled down one of my 5 smoke alarms the other day to steal a 9v for a guitar pedal. There was no replaceable battery in it. I couldn't even open it without breaking it. It was installed last year when I got a new panel. They are made to be thrown away when they die now.

@Rr0gu3_5uture 2 ай бұрын

For all my music gear I now use Duracell Procell batteries. They're the industrial version that aren't directly marketed to consumers. Normally they're a bit cheaper but last absolute ages! I found out about them because they were the long life version used in certain brands of smoke alarm.

@Notso_Wild_Bill 2 ай бұрын

Did you know that camera lenses made

@Notso_Wild_Bill 2 ай бұрын

Camera lenses used thorium oxide in the glass between the 40s and 70s. It's not dangerous as long as it's not ingested.

@cantyouhearmeknocking1961 2 ай бұрын

Can you use 'Neptuniaum' in a tube amp? Maybe in the preamp section?

@wayshot 2 ай бұрын

You could actually get a "Neptunium" preamp - for a while. Pedal maker Sushi Box made a limited quantity of a tube preamp/DI called Neptunium, they were based on the Noble preamp. Sold out by now, unfortunately.

@banced1 2 ай бұрын

You can buy a new one this year and every year thereafter, simply because we're built back better.

@marcchristopher6009 2 ай бұрын

He finally ended up changing his name to Gary Busey

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 2 ай бұрын

Let me just say this. Find a mechanical heat detector. They are avail. Portable , and 100 times more reliable. They work with a temp sensitive solder that works just like a fire sprinkler head. It has a wind up spring that’s held under tension with the solder . When the solder melts it releases the spring which moves clappers that hit the outer casing ringing it like a bell at 90db. 90% of the time they actually survive the fire. And people have recovered them , reset them with a new solder lock and wind the spring back like a clock. Simple genius design. Why heat , and not smoke ? Because it’s been found that about 30-45% of smoke detectors fail due to poor maintenance , dirty ion detector. Or excessively thick smoke that covers the ion particles 10:1 making it impossible for the detector to sense the ions in the smoke. Especially with foam in modern furniture. Which produces a cyanide gas .. that’s why they no longer tell you to crawl as close to the ground as possible. But instead to keep your head around doorknob level. Cyanide gas stays about a foot off the floor. Sorry for such a long comment Brad. But you and your family are worth it !!! ✌️brother.

@bojidar200 2 ай бұрын

What is the voltage of the batteries after 20 years?

@TheGuitologist 2 ай бұрын

Good question. ALL THREE were still above 2.9V!

@nefariumxxx 2 ай бұрын

Yeah mine were actually put to use in series to replace a 9v powering a little home made DIY geiger counter circuit and they lasted a year or more of occasional use.

@williampolfus6975 2 ай бұрын

The radioactive element in the alarm may have a half life at 10 years, so it might not be as accurate if you replaced the batteries to try and extend it's life.

@nefariumxxx 2 ай бұрын

Nope, he stated the half-life of Am-241 and it's 432.2 years.

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

The half life of americium 241 is 432 years it isn't going anywhere

@beginner_electric_guitar 2 ай бұрын

smoke alarm

@themadist2245 2 ай бұрын

Look up Galen Winsor.

@nefariumxxx 2 ай бұрын

Oddly enough I saw a post that he died at an old age of complications of Parkinson's which apparently has been linked to heavy metal poisoning. Uranium oxide is a heavy metal and he was literally eating the stuff at his many presentations.

@marcchristopher6009 2 ай бұрын

Amer-eee-cium

@browndog666ify 2 ай бұрын

David Hahn - Absolute Mad Lads - Count Dankula channel

@akompsupport 2 ай бұрын

Wow those fingernails!

@Fixologist1 2 ай бұрын

I am a guitar player. I pick guitar with my fingernails on my right hand.

@bobperu1 2 ай бұрын

Can you boil water with it and run a steam engine? Lol

@The-One-and-Only100 2 ай бұрын

@MarcCarriage121 2 ай бұрын

Marvin the Martians source for Immudium Pew 36 space modulator. 🧨💥 😂🤣

@user-mv5bu2kk8b 2 ай бұрын

Coffee maker

@rocketPower047 2 ай бұрын

Lol at piezo pronounced 🥧-zo. It's pee-ez-zo

@micahwatz1148 2 ай бұрын

You beeper keeper

@w13rdguy 2 ай бұрын

Not trying to scare anyone, the amount of time you spent with it here is okay, but you are taking radiation exposure when you mess with these. So I advise the audience; leave it to the KZbinrs.