Re: CRT implosion screens.
In the 1950's I remember dad getting rid of the CRT from our first TV by lobbing it out of the back door into the concreted part of our garden and rapidly shutting the door. A really impressive bang that had all the neighbours looking out, and tiny fragments of glass everywhere. Dad just expressed surprise like all the others! For the next one, he put it in a sack in the dustbin and lobbed bricks in until it went. Our retired drag-and-bone man neighbour said he just used to knock off the seal on the gun with a spade, which left the bulb intact.
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