Re: CRT implosion
I took a scrap 25" colour tube still in the TV case to the local tip. I wanted to keep the case but it was a convenient way to transport it. As I drove into the tip someone spotted the TV case and said does it work? No said I at which point he lost interest. I then undid the bolts holding the tube into the case and started lifting it out very carefully at which point he returned, picked up the tube and flung it onto the tip. I didn't see what happened as I'd turned my back and was starting to run in the opposite direction!
When I remember all the things we did as kids, at home and at school, it's a wonder that we survived but having seen CRTs imploding we got to respect them and learned how to handle, or how not to handle, them along with all the other things that would have H&S breathing down our necks these days.
Keith
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