Salton Sea Atomic Test Base Part 1 

Thanks for the clarification.

Telephone lines and telegraph lines are not high voltage and did not require large glass insulators you're exactly opposite from correct.

@@RealRocdad he is correct, those are telegraph lines. Yes typical modern phone systems are run in very thin wire, but in that era they used self support copper. The insulators are not that size for the voltage but to be robust enough to hold the wire without breaking. Also old telephone systems did amplify to a couple hundred volts on transmission lines to compensate for line loss.

@@RealRocdad youre incorrect. even the railroads used glass insulators for their telegraph lines. we have some abandoned lines out here in the central valley next to the railroad tracks. the glass insulators were indeed used for telephone lines. i am a communications contractor so this is my wheel house

​@@RealRocdad They may not have required them for the voltage, but they were used. The railroad by my place used them on the telegraph lines along the track. Our telephone also used those styles of insulators when it was above ground on telephone poles!😄

Curious, what was he fishing for? Did your family eat the fish caught? I am sure the fish is fine to eat, just curious. Thanks for sharing, it is always good to remember those good memories.

​@@superchuck3259 Orangemouth corvina, tilapia, gulf croaker, and sargo. Corvinas were the illusive prize fish, the one for which there was a limit of seven. Once my dad and I limited-out offshore near Red Hill, an event a female game warden took particular note of with her binoculars. Yeah, she was there to greet us at the docks.

I can only imagine. That place looks like it’s had a long hard fall.

There is an abandoned rail line close to were i live with an old overhead line running nearly mostly of its length. The entire line could easily be 100 miles or more. There are thousands of those glass insulators sitting on those poles.

these types of insulators were not made of pyrex aka borosilicate glass, that would have been an unnecessary expense.. these were made of ordinary bottle glass, the clear ones aren't worth much but the colored ones can be worth some money. the valuable ones were made before the 1940's.

oh yeah? i have a crate full of those... it's yours for $50

Surprised the morons haven't shot those insulators,they seem to shoot everything else out in the desert!

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Thanks.

Oh I've been there in the summer at Bombay Beach and Red Hill. Wow, that smell was something else.

The salton sea is a very shallow body of water averaging 6 to 12 ft with some deep holes about 40 to 60 ft in the south east area around bombay beach. As a result of this shallowness whenever the wind blows the salton sea ends up with anywhere from 3 to 5 ft waves. They stir up the sediment causing an algae bloom which will either be a red tide or a green tide and these will use up all the oxygen in the water. As a result fish and many other life forms dependent on oxygen will die. This is what causes the smell not the Salton Sea itself, not the water itself, but the algae bloom and the resulting fish die off due to lack of oxygen. I'm just a retired janitor but having grown up in the area i can tell you a lot about the history here. One thing i don't like to hear or read is words used to describe our communities as deplorable, pitiful, and toxic. Yes since the 1940s when they needed to increase food production for world war II they started using pesticides herbicides and fertilizers which were made chemically. All these have since settled into the bottom of the sea and of course that's where your toxic dust blowing around when the water dries that's where it comes from. The salton sea itself isn't deplorable isn't pitiful, isn't toxic, and doesn't stink. For those of you who believe otherwise, perhaps i should make the broad generalization that Los Angeles is nothing but homeless people, drug addicts, and people living in tents. Or wait a minute is that portland oregon i'm talking about????

@@maxortega4690 Los Angeles and the area surrounding it is also full of smug, elitist, leftist America hating rodents. Your comment is spot on..respects!

@@RadioactiveDrew Does it smell like... "a bag full of assholes"?

@@maxortega4690 Well,LA does have more than its share of deplorables,some of which dress nicely and live in fine homes.....

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I released it yesterday.

Glad you liked it. Thanks for the sub.

Thanks. The Salton Sea is a pretty amazing place.

If you ever get a chance to check it out you should. Its a very interesting spot.

Thanks.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Part 2 should be out this weekend.

Thanks. Glad you liked it. Part 2 will come out next week. In that one I winch my friend out of some sand he got stuck in and check out some explosive bunkers.

@@RadioactiveDrew looking forward to see it!

Sandia also has a large R&D complex next to (or just inside) Kirtland AFB - Albuquerque, New Mexico. KAFB has also a major nuclear weapons storage area within the Manzano (spelling?) mountains at the base”s east perimeter.

Thanks for the words of encouragement.

Thanks...its a great location to get cool shots at.

Its a very cool place to explore. But watch out for sand and mud...have a plan to get out if you get stuck.

Border Patrol will not go in the water near there if that tells you anything!

Thanks. I'm always trying to make them better.

Thanks...the Salton Sea is a place I've been going out to for the past 10 years. Mainly for the purpose of shooting photos and timelapse clips. About 4 years ago I started going out to the Navy/Test Base. Its a very unique place to visit.

Thanks for both.

@@RadioactiveDrew It's no problem. It's good content and deserves to be recognized as such.

Thanks for that. Helps me understand what I was seeing out there a little more.

Yup, I think they are old style POTS lines....each pair....one phone line! Crazy! Pretty cool too.

@@AtomicElectronCo actually each single wire was one line and all of the lines on a run shared a common signal return wire. so if you had 50 wires on a run you actually had 49 lines.

I guess YT doesn't like me that much. I keep getting comments like this, which is kind of funny.

@@RadioactiveDrew"Sex, danger and food" sells. Do a video: "Danger! Avoid This Radioactive Food", and you will get views:).

Thanks for the suggestion. But none of that would be true. I may hype up a title a bit to get people interested but my main goal is to let people know radiation is all around us and isn’t as dangerous as most people make it seem. I try and present it in a way that is nice to watch.

@@RadioactiveDrew So, radiation is like KOWIT-XIX, " is all around us and isn’t as dangerous as most people make it seem"

@@robertdeptula2003 Why not "Avoid this radioactive food during sex" then?

The Part 2 of this video I went out to the bunkers with a buddy of mine.

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Thanks.

@@RadioactiveDrew would you be interested in coming to a youtuber meetup in Boston in a few months?

I've talked to people out at Bombay Beach over the years. Interesting characters out that way.

That would be cool. I would be very careful being on that now. Too many people have been destroying the walls.

It’s a interesting place to explore.

Yeah, that’s what others informed me.

When I go there I try and do it in February or early March to avoid that heat. The wind can get super crazy out there as well.

Thanks. The way to fix it would be to allow some water to flow in and out. I know they have talked about cutting a canal. Personally, and I know this is going to sound horrible, but I want the water to keep getting lower. There are so many aircraft at the bottom of the Salton Sea and who knows what else. The responsible thing would be to have an inflow / outflow. It’s also a tricky area because it’s below sea level.

I’ve seen reports that they used depleted uranium in the test bombs out there. That’s the only reason I bought it up.

@@RadioactiveDrew Fair enough. I only know about the British bomb project in any great detail. Somewhere I used to work was engaged in development of manufacturing techniques for the pushers. It was not particularly easy because apparently DU is a very challenging material to machine. That was all back in the 40s/50s, long before I got there, but a curious by-product was the suspiciously dense door stops that some of the older engineers possessed.

@@RadioactiveDrew DPU was used as ballast in some of the casings with concrete as filler. Early on they used lead, but war was on and they needed lead for other things.. My wife's uncle worked there for a while.

Thanks.

It’s a very beautiful place. Some people have a hard time seeing it.

@@RadioactiveDrew Thanks for the awesome vid. Now more people can see this unique area.

I’ve seen the one out on the water. Some guy took a boat out to it.

The KO2's are the best.

I don't have any experience with the Alert Ranger. Some people seem to really like them from what I've heard. You could always get a used Ludlum Model 3 or a Model 14C...both of those can use a 44-9 pancake probe. The Ludlums are solid detector...I own 2 of them. Here's that video you were talking about ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ONbwFMBS4Q.html

Glad you are enjoying the videos…and yeah I’m surprised as well those power lines are still there.

Not sure if those lines are made of copper. High tension cables are usually steel.

@@jk-76 … or aluminum?

More than likely its just naturally occurring radioactive elements. I'm sure some of it could be from contamination.

Wow, I’m going to have to look into that.

@@RadioactiveDrew I've tried to find more details with no luck. Hope you can find deeper info..

Thanks.

Denser the air, the easier it will fly. In mountains, some drones won't even fly.

I totally agree. I want to go back out there before it gets insanely hot and windy.

Well I can’t make everyone happy.

If there were particles or big pieces where I went it would have come up on the detector.

It was used for a couple of different things. I think troops when out there before they went to Operation Desert Storm. There are a lot of older shell casing out there.

The Navy controlled the base before Sandia took it over for the whole atomic testing.

"site".

@@MrShobar Thanks, for spell check.

That would be cool…and a little dangerous.

@RadioactiveDrew it would safe if someone had a side sonar system to search the area, then working with the Navy for recovery.

Yeah, someone else corrected me on that also.

Yeah...I really like the KO2's. They work really well in the dirt, sand and snow. I would say mud as well but not much is great in the mud. The desert mud is some of the worst mud because of the clay mixed in. Good luck with the KO2's on your Tacoma...I think I'm on my 4th set. I have around 320K miles on my Taco.

I sell the shirts at uraniumstore.com

They took over the base that was built by the Navy. It seems like the Navy base was smaller and Sandia expanded it

Now the range its at Tonopha AFB.

The t-shirts are available at uraniumstore.com

I bet. That's a very interesting place out there.

@@RadioactiveDrew Most definitely, the reddish pinkish scars on the mountains behind the local Casino is actually a gold mine. The chocolate colored rock you can see on the local mts, and halfway between Indio and Blythe has a high Iron content. They also have Gold which has a high copper content and tarnishes black. I use Google Earth to find old Gold mines, plot a course to them, then use my 2021 TRD 4X4 OFF ROAD to get there. Look up Tumco, a former Gold mining town located south of Glamis above the I-8. I've explored the whole area now for 50+ years. The Santa Rosa mts. had the only Beryl mine and Emeralds have been found all over the area. The natives from Sonora Mexico would bring Mushrooms and Peyote for religious ceremonies, and receive Emeralds in exchange. I found a good sized Emerald in the early ,70's buried under an outside cooking grate next to a stone cabin in Martinez canyon. Not knowing what it was, and believing it to be glass we used ut for target practice. 8 years later when I discharged from the Army, I learned about the local history of Emeralds. It measuted about 3/4" thick, two inches high at one end tapering to 1" at the other end, and three inches long. MY LOSS!!

That whole area has some really cool geology.

More like a prequel to the Nevada Test site. But I guess Area 51 is there.

Thanks for the warning. I don’t think these lines would do this because none of them are isolated from the ground for that long.

Asbestos is the bestus.

I would like to go. But I don’t think that’s going to happen for a while.

Some of the dummy atomic bombs still used uranium metal in them to simulate the correct weight and other aspects.

I pressure wash my truck pretty regularly.

you would have to pressure wash it w WD40 @@RadioactiveDrew

@kevinbroadway5398 I’ve been out there about a dozen times with my truck since getting it back in 2011. There hasn’t been any excessive rust. I get my truck up on a lift at least once a year or more. So I get to walk under it and see everything in great detail.

ok well i went once on my dirtbike right up to the water where the dead fish were and got stuck in the mud almost and by the time i got home the chain was rusted and the next day the whole bike was rusted i had to use soap and scrub every nook and cranny them spray WD40 all over the bike and then ride it a few times in just reg dirt and rinse soap wd repeat i ended up tearing it down to the frame and greasing all the bearings and some were just shot and needed to be replaced@@RadioactiveDrew

@@kevinbroadway5398 oh yeah, the mud and water at the Salton Sea can be extremely damaging to metal. I've never taken my truck in the water...almost got stuck in some mud by Red Hill Marina. But I've found that if you stick to the dry sand and stay away from the water in the lake you should be good.

I’ll keep saying it my way.

Nuke-lay-her? Nuke-lee-hear? Nuka-cola? Nuka-nuka-motha-trucka? Why tf does it matter how he pronounces it? 🤣 Did ya know what he was referring to? Then yep, his way was working just fine 💁‍♂️

The gunny partbof you being a pendantic ass is you're simply wrong it is a word and means nut shapped. It's also a pronunciation for nuclear that's been around since the 40's so you're not going to get rid of it it's just like calling an opossum a possum, language evolves like shit yeet is an actual word in dictionaries now because of it and nuculur has been around a hell of a lot longer