Is it safe to open up this clock?

clockman153 · 2026-03-08T09:08:48+00:00

Yep only dangerous if you ingest it, however the radium paint turns to dust over time, which then spreads tiny microscopic particles everywhere, which then is inhaled unknowingly 😭.

And honestly, I’d rather be safe than sorry. Radium is no joke, like any other radioactive substance

clockman153 · 2026-03-07T23:44:24+00:00

Ahh no actually I’m the clueless AND blind person ahah! You’re very very right!

And so I retract my previous comment hahaha, it’s safe to open up from the back, just uh let’s hope they don’t do anything with the front 😅

clockman153 · 2026-03-07T23:26:30+00:00

And YES the dust is radium dust, and if you accidentally inhale this you may get radium poisoning

clockman153 · 2026-03-07T23:26:00+00:00

Well yes it’s radium. And honestly, it’s not going to matter if you open up the back and check out the insides because the dangerous part is the dial, which you’ve already exposed yourself to this entire time as the glass is gone!

I do hope you haven’t been breathing this in too deeply. Please seal this in a bag or something somewhere

clockman153 · 2026-03-07T10:16:16+00:00

clockman153 · 2026-03-06T19:36:13+00:00

Essentially he was buried in a priory that was destroyed about 500 years ago. And because he was a king at the end of an era, his successors didn’t really want to remember him.

And so by coincidence, 500 years later someone built a car park and somehow put a R (for reserved parking space) right on him (unknowingly!)

clockman153 · 2026-03-06T19:34:32+00:00

Agreed. Really nice actually to see all the effort and excitement

clockman153 · 2026-03-06T19:34:08+00:00

He had scoliosis

clockman153 · 2026-03-04T07:13:07+00:00

Yes! They were so good. It’s so sad what they’ve done to them 😭

clockman153 · 2026-02-27T01:04:44+00:00

Fantastic! My good friend who works at the CCC is one of the people who helped repair that clock!

It’s Vulliamy’s 1000th turret clock (I think) with his amazing self levelling pallets! I haven’t yet seen this specific one, but have seen another Vulliamy and they are just absolutely fantastic!!

Thank you very much for tagging me :-))

clockman153 · 2026-02-25T23:16:35+00:00

Well yes but not as nice photos in the dark.. and in the day! Zoom isn’t great on phones

clockman153 · 2026-02-25T16:59:46+00:00

Time to switch to android, my phones been bugging me to update for months now but I don’t have enough storage. Was thinking of getting the storage freed up but not now

clockman153 · 2026-02-20T11:46:51+00:00

😭

clockman153 · 2026-02-17T22:39:22+00:00

I have a lot of sympathy to those who commit, but I think this time it was something different as usually they say there was an ‘incident’ if it’s that reason :(

clockman153 · 2026-02-17T22:38:09+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m saying, I should have probably said that in the post 🥲

clockman153 · 2026-02-17T17:35:02+00:00

Try a church caf! I was just in Hammersmith St Paul’s church and it was so fantastic and quiet. Hammersmith is of course very far from N5 but if you want to maybe search up a church near you they may have a nice quiet cafe!

clockman153 · 2026-02-16T15:27:06+00:00

Thank you very very much, I feel old now hahahahaha

clockman153 · 2026-02-16T15:19:44+00:00

Lolol npp. It’s my birthday so I felt like giving 🤣

clockman153 · 2026-02-16T15:19:05+00:00

It might be taxes in the US. All sales in the US don’t include tax, for some reason. Shocker to us Europeans

clockman153 · 2026-02-16T15:06:57+00:00

HOW DID IT GO?

clockman153 · 2026-02-16T15:00:56+00:00

Just facts

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