You shouldn't take anything unless you know what it is, lest you end up with pieces from a radiography machine in your home. What looks like a weird piece of metal may kill you and you won't feel it happening.
Goiânia accident for example Or the Samut Prakan radiation accident
Or just read from this handy list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_accidents
Holy shit reading through that list is infuriating. More than half the stuff on that list is directly attributable to capitalism as a mode of production. :deeper-sadness:
No.
This used to be my philosophy, but every time I found something cool and left it behind, it would be gone when I came back. Sometimes destroyed in demolition, sometimes stolen by someone else. Just take it if you want it.
Pre transitors. used in old tvs and radios. Big sealed tubes with air removed and coils that needed to warm up so ypu had to wait for your device to warm up when it started.
IIRC they're tough to make these days because of emissions standards which is why they're so expensive
not only that but most of the industrial knowledge of exactly how to make them is dead. there used to be 10's of thousands of people if not 100's of thousands with knowledge of the processes involved, now there are just hundreds. Most of the industrial equipment used to make them is long gone too so people attempting to make them now have to relearn and reinvent the processeswith only theory as their guide. There was a guy in Germany who had to reinvent the process to make dixie tubes just because he wanted some and ended up making a whole company producing them at a small scale.
It's a vintage electronic component from before the invention of transistors. Previously they were used in many applications, from radio sets to the first computers. Today their only application is guitar amps where the noisy analog signal they provide makes the sound. Audiophiles claim they can hear the difference between manufacturers of tubes of the same specifications.
As production of vacuum tubes has mostly ceased there is a lot of fetishism for vintage tubes and unused old tubes are sold for significant sums.
holy shit i just realised i had the same experience when cleaning out my hoarder grandma's house. i could have a 4k tv rn
i wouldn't go around pillaging things but taking a token or something you would actually use is fine. got the hydrometer i use to make booze from an abandoned grainery
Reasons to leave things behind....
- If you're caught trespassing with something from the site, you can get tagged for theft as well
- Not knowing what you're messing with and it hurting/killing you.
- Bragging about something salvaged and causing a rush to finish reclaiming stuff from the area. More people, more attention, more authorities, etc.
- Needing to leave quickly and having extra stuff to carry can get you hurt or caught.
Reasons to take things...
- You want it and you can.
1, 2, 4. Purely personal risks, personal decision.
3. Just don't brag?
Depends, if it's some building and you want to take a fancy lampshade. Do it, just don't get caught and don't brag.
If it's the palace at Knossos and you're sneaking past Greek customs by night-time packet boat so you can rebuild an entire temple inside your museum at Oxford, maybe don't
