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Old 05-12-2017, 05:09 AM
walterbeers walterbeers is offline
Old TVs are better!
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Omaha NE
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Originally Posted by jstout66 View Post
For me.... it's "find the nearest dumpster and fling"

I pitched a 20" Sony with built in VCR (now I wish I had kept, but it had intermittent audio issues)

Anyway.. in 35 years of disposing of TV's, I've never heard a tube go off like that one did. It sounded like a bomb, and blew the dumpster lids up....


Just let me pinch the nipple off the tube under the socket before you fling. I'd hate to see someone throw something else heavy in the dumpster and get a face full of glass as it implodes. . It only takes a couple minutes to release the vacuum safely.


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