On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:31:04 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > CRT tubes really aren't always as 'dangerous' as people make them
> > out to being. Years ago when I was in tech school, and buying TV
> > sets from thrift stores to practice troubleshooting on, I regularly
> > had TV CRT tubes to dispose of.
>
> I can attest to that. I handle a lot of them these days and have had
> TVs fall from up to 6 feet, land on the face or corner, and survive.
> Sometimes they don't, but I'm amazed when they do (and glad because I
> hate having to do the cleanup).
>
> > The tubes are made of safety glass, in any case. One night in
> > drunken student reverie, someone I know lobbed one of my dead sets
> > (a big 25" color set) off a third floor balcony onto the yard below.
> > The next
> > morning, I retrieved and disposed of the chassis. The glass had
> > disappeared, reduced to crumbles and sunk into the grass.
>
> Oh nice. I'm sure people are still suffering unexplained cuts when
> they lay out on that part of the grass :)
>
Have you ever gotten a cut from automotive 'safety glass'? That's what
it all reduced to. Besides which, that 'yard' is blacktopped now (right
in one of the main three blocks of downtown 'Dinkytown.'
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Received on Sun Feb 13 2005 - 10:11:59 GMT