Um,

These tubes should not have any mercury in them to begin with. I think that
you might be looking at the "getter" material splattered on the sides of the
tube.

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"Greg Argendeli" wrote in message
om...
Does anyone have a good procedure for discarding 'blown'
mercury-filled tubes?
I have a few 811, 817, and 807s (some good, some not), and an un-id
(think 807-size) unit that has a pool of mercury in it as well as a
nice splatter pattern inside the glass. The glass and the base are in
decent shape (no cracks) so it makes an interesting conversation piece
("hey, hook it up on a tester and lets see what happens!" are,
unfortunatley, common...) but I am concerned about safe disposal of
the sucker.

Find a toxic dump, a local ham who collects them?? (I won't ship the
blown tube).

Thanks,

-arg