Re: CRT implosion
My first experience of CRT disposal was when my bother and I and several of the neighbours kids started throwing things at the back of a scrap TV. Most of us missed the CRT but one fir cone hit the tube base and we heard a crack. Knowing it could implode we all stood transfixed, not daring to move as we waited for the big bang. Eventually I walked carefully up to the TV and pulled the remains of the tube neck from the scan coils.
Later tubes were disposed of on waste ground behind our garden. Me and my mate would place the tube on the ground face down then stand some distance away and lob stones at it until one of us hit the tube. If it was hit in the right place we didn't need to clear up the mess! On one occasion some of the local kids saw what we were doing and one of them picked up a large brick, stood over the tube and we just managed to stop him from dropping the brick on the tube. We then disposed of the tube in our "normal" way showing him the error of his ways.
Keith
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