When I was a kid my first TV project was tearing apart our old Hoffman "Easy-Vision". My dad broke the tip off of the CRT so I wouldn't kill myself by breaking a "live" tube. I tried to re-evacuate it with the vacuum cleaner.
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Good thing I couldn't get the hose to seal against the neck!
Looking back at all of the stuff I did as a kid, I'm lucky to be alive!