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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: nemobis on April 03, 2012, 02:40 am

Title: what blocks x-rays
Post by: nemobis on April 03, 2012, 02:40 am
Hi, I often ship stuff in plain envelopes, trying to make them look B2B as much as possible. Success rate is OK.  I've heard that x-rays can't penetrate carbon paper and aluminum foil. Is that true?
Thank you for your attention.
Cheers! 
Title: Re: what blocks x-rays
Post by: jmoney113 on April 03, 2012, 02:46 am
It really depends on the x-ray. Some will penetrate just about any material other than a big, dense block of lead. I would say your best bet is to use lead foil, but I would assume that if a parcel did happen to go through an x-ray machine and it wasn't penetrating the foil unable to see what's inside, then it would most likely raise red flags with the operator.
Title: Re: what blocks x-rays
Post by: peach on April 03, 2012, 05:20 am
If you use lead, it will show like a solid block in the scanner, it will look incredibly suspicious, because nothing looks like that in real life, everything has different rates of absorption, that's what's is showed colored in their monitors.
If you shield it, it will just look plain and uniform, especially if you shield the whole envelope. That is a flaring burning flag indicating that something fishing is going on.
Title: Re: what blocks x-rays
Post by: Laughing Man on April 03, 2012, 05:33 am
Nothing you can fit in your package.
Title: Re: what blocks x-rays
Post by: caffeine_me on April 04, 2012, 05:56 am
A while ago I had an xray of some thick upper body bones.  There was a bone (looked like the exact density) that showed up out of no where.  They had me remove my shirt and it disappeared.  It ended up being a little Nike light reflector tag on my shirt........interesting?  very thin cloth.  It got my brain thinking.
Title: Re: what blocks x-rays
Post by: Limetless on April 04, 2012, 06:04 am
Carbon paper doesn't work and look sketchy as fuck. The trick is to match the products x-ray signature with what you are what you are hiding it in.