Cold Table

So much decay in so little time....

You would think some free clinic somewhere in the world could use this and not let it rust away!

Sad to waste expensive equipment. But a room with no tile on the walls!

No tiles Toot! But soap and towel dispenser! :)

TWO soap dispensers!
I think our hospital here still uses one like this......it looks a little familiar.

LOL YAY for the soap dispenser joke...still alive and well, I see!!!

That pattern of missing tiles on the wall looks like a chicken walking away from someone, but looking back and flipping them the bird.

INK BLOT TEST! What do you see in it?? :D

Oh I don.t think I want to lie there with that think aiming at me.

MMMM me either AD Nilson (nice to see you again BTW)...

Not unless you want to glow GREEN for the rest of your days and have random body parts falling off.

*Shudders at that thought*

"Cold table" is a good title. Ever plop your carcass on one of these wearing nothing but a hospital gown? The peeling paint is the first sign of decay I've seen. I hope this building remains frozen in time & doesn't fall victim to vandals.

Yeah alot of these places on here have equipment left behind, I'm sure somewhere could use it. It would be an upgrade to them I'm sure.

soap dispensers can give you cancer

Its a shame to see all that stuff go to waste. Im surprised to see a room with no tiles.

Ahhh, the soap dispenser jokes will live on, won't they? I do enjoy them...sorry Mr. Motts!

I'm also pretty surprised (and happy) that the vandals haven't gotten in there yet. Morons.

I bet if you plug it in it would work........... Im sure it could help out a lot of people and animals who need x-rays.

NAU Fronske xray room!

"The show must go on"

This is incredibly old x-ray and fluoroscopic room. Obsolete, outdated and worthless. It is much better used as a Soap Dispenser.

I don't think a clinic, or even a vet's office, is going to want to try and utilize this cancer-causing monster. As Princessica said, this thing is so obsolete it should have those big radiation signs all over it, right next to the skull-and-crossbones placards. As much as it seems a shame that equipment sits and rusts away in these abandoned facilities, some of the machinery is better off out of service.

That machine on the ceiling descends to process the heads and extract the brains! Do NOT get anywhere under it!

What Princessica and Rekrats say is very true. Modern X-Ray equipment can take a clearer picture more quickly while subjecting the patient to much less radiation than older equipment did.

That machine is actually in better shape than the one at one of my hospitals. Perhaps they could trade?

Finally! This is just what I was loiokng for.

At my first job (1979) there was a machine similar to this. The MD who owned it was not a radiologist and mainly interested in how much money he could make (the machine was at least 20 years old - and obsolete - in 1979). The scary part is not the machine...

I think one reason many pieces of pre-1970's X-Ray gear is left behind is that the insulating oil in the power supplies contained PCB's. Cheaper to just leave it in place that pay for disposal. A typical large diagnostic machine may have as much as ten gallons or even more. The transformers in the power supply were usually mounted in oil-filled containers -- the oil provided both cooling and helped the electrical properties of the units.

As for X-ray gear containing radioactive material, it's extremely unlikely.
"Radioactive" is more of a scare word these days, as science is taught less and less in our schools. Yes, the machines *produce* radiation, but only when powered on. Elements like radium, thallium, americium, etc continually produce radiation as they decay, as that is their nature.

All this doesn't make X-ray equipment safe - far from it. There is a maximum lifetime (and short period) cumulative dosage of X-rays just as there is for any other ionizing radiation. That's why the radiological tech is behind leaded glass and a shielded wall. A patient on the table may just receive a small dose, but the tech may "shoot" hundreds of patients per day. - so it may take many years for a patient to receive what OSHA, AMA, ACR, DOE, XYZPDQ (lol) and other groups call a "lifetime cumulative dose" it would be possible for the poor rad tech to get the equivalent dose in days or weeks, depending on the number of patients and type of equipment used, were there no shielded enclosure for them.

Same goes for any application of radiation in a clinical or industrial environment.

Just sayin' in case some of you'uns out there weren't knowledgeable on the subject. (Retired electrical engineer, certified radiac tech, mad scientist and general know it all. heehee )

Regardless of my sermon above, these are GREAT photos. I LOVE abandoned buildings, but there are not that many in my area these days.
Plus I'm an Old Ph*rt. lol