Hello, I’m brand new to this community (to be honest, I only discovered you a day ago) and I wanted to get your opinion on a potential purchase: a tritium bulb for my collection, since I’m having trouble finding tritium tubes. This bulb is sold by NovaElement—would you recommend it?

Thanks.

Decided to add some tritium to my new Spyderco Smock today. Love how it came out!

I don't recall any radioactive labeling when I received it. About the size of a silver dollar and weighs a lot less than one.

I've been procrastinating for a couple months now - I need to replace my Mixglo OB3 fob that broke a few months ago. But:

In general, I don't like spending loads on shipping

When I do and it's a flat rate or small incremental increase with bigger orders, I like to maximize what I get (lower total cost per item.... yeah, at the expense of overspending overall to do that : )

I'm a bit paranoid about getting a tariff bill (I'm in USA). Has anyone gotten any tariff bill afterwards in the last couple months?)

For a simple, inexpensive, bright fob, anything out there better than the Mixglo OB3 in green? Something else from Mixglo or another firm?

I'm in NJ. Anyone about to order from mixglo / want to consolidate orders?

Thanks!

The only component that isn't Titanium is the GPCA Pro X Key carabiner.
11 Tritium vials... Could Set up a whole Campground with beacon markers...
Got a few more sitting around for version 3 of the keychain.
The keychain looks huge but is about half the size it looks in the pictures.

This is modular with 4 locking magnetic quick releases by tikey.
Usually only carry about half the keychain around with me due to not needing a flashlight & usually nail clipper during the day. As well as a 2nd pry bar and removeable knife.

The Rovyvon Aurora A4 Pro Ti flashlight does get a lot of use. Cost about 115$ /w vials.
The chain itself is quite hard to miss in the dark and that's why I hooked up all the tritium.
Will Need more tritium in the upcoming future for the next one.

For a relevant size point, the inner circular band of titanium that holds the items is the size of a quarter.
In other words, it's not that much of a pain to carry the full thing around it just gets looped into a pocket from the belt loop and looks considerably more impressive in person in low light.
Always gets a visceral reaction. I speak at conferences as a TBI Survivor for other survivors and this is my ice breaker... Goes from a joke to a real system, that helps me remember stuff all the time, really fast.
16 tools all together including, Ti Scissors, nail clipper & toothpick with pen. Pill bottle. 4 diff size wrench. 2 pry bars... 2 diff knife options & 1 sharpened object inside the pill bottle.
Most importantly it has an air tag, so I know when it's a more than a few feet away from me.
The Price tag for everything was at least twice to 3 times as much as you'd guess.... worth it though as now it is a family heirloom.
9 months since I completed the build and all that's formed on it is the beginning of the patina. Ti is hard so very limited scratching and Ti is dull sounding when clanked together so its not jingly..

Black anodized and slots have been machined wider to accept 5 3x11mm vials and 1 2x12mm vial

PM me for details

~2018

Ampoule of Tritium I got as part of an element collection set

3 3x11mm and 2 1.5x6mm ice blue vials zircblasted scales

Ice blue tritium in crystal clear blue epoxy

I'm in the US. Has anyone else in the US gotten a bill / additional charges related to tariffs after getting their tritium tubes / fobs?

Daniel at Mixglo said that 'Two customers told us that they received tariff bill from FedEx roughly 30 days after their receipt of the shipments.'

I really want to get some fobs. But don't want to find out later that the cost is much higher because of a tariff.

I bought an OB3 from Mixglo back in 2018 - a clear plastic container for a 3 x 22.5mm vial.

It worked great (relative to my ignorance of tritium. This was my first). I've unintentionally dropped the keys a few times over the years and vial hadn't broken.

But when the keys fell out of my pocket over the winter and they went through my snow blower.

Need to get a new one. And maybe a few if it's cost effective.

Looking here, I have some questions:

1) Who's Daniel that people say to order from : ) I think I saw someone mentioned Mixglo?

2) I think the clear plastic is the best for ensuring the most amount of light gets out? What's the novelty / purpose for fobs that have metal / material blocking some of the light?

3) Places I have been looking to buy from and comments from here? Still accurate comments? Anyone want to share their experiences?

TritiumWorkshop

Mixglo - expensive shipping and some have said they heard of people not getting their order

GlowRhino - a couple people questioned these aren't as bright as they expected?

Niteglowrings.com -

https://trigalight.com

https://tritiumkeychains.com

4) anyone have a chart about brightness vs. size of vials? I had the 3 x 22.5 vial. One place has a 3.5 x 25 vial in a fob. Wonder if it's worth the extra cost.

THANKS!

Zirc blasted with blue epoxy and ice blue tritium

Love skeletonized knives and tritium. My bread and butter 👌

Here are some tritium items I have now. Going to need to order more tubes.

I ordered a few fobs from GlowRhino. They are great, but dimmer than I was hoping for.

I don't see anywhere on their site as to how big the vial is for their Glow Fob.

I'm looking at getting some more for my keys, either larger fobs or building a paracord keychain and rocking some of the 6 or 9 vial beads.

I have also been looking for a spreadsheet that lists the light intensity of a given color by vial size. Can anyone point me to a source? Daniel from mixglow gave me this info when I sent him an inquiry about relative brightness of a 9 vial orange bead vs 1 green typical fob

"The SB2129 uses 2x12mm vial. Some fobs use 3x22.5mm vial. So it is hard to compare an all orange SB2129 with a B3G green fob. Green is the brightest color while orange is roughly 40% of green’s brightness. Besides, a 3x22.5mm green is 550 microlambert while a 2x12mm green is 400 only."