Letting the vacuum out
 

Many of us have "let the vacuum out" of a CRT or two unintentionally. For anyone who hasn't experienced that sinking feeling personally, here's a video of some guys doing it on purpose.

http://www.scienceman.com/movies/vacuum.mov

I've probably done that a thousand times over the last 30 years or so. But it's a lot more fun to smack the back of the jug with a .22 bullet; That's how we did it when I was a kid.
Then there was the good 'ol days at the dump.....Toss one into the pit face down, and if it survived, throw another in on top of it neck down. POOF! :rockon:

hehehe, Like this?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...q=tv+explosion

Here's a way I "recycle" dead TVs, I like this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IT0gvN-CLjc

and these guys do it with a pickaxx!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cyB5RL9nE...elated&search=

Nice

http://youtube.com/watch?v=itGYw8DHfS8

When I was about 10 we used an ax to bust one that we shoved into the garbage can. The lady next door was going to call the cops, because she thought it was a shotgun.

That guy who threw the brick through the set is going to be picking glass out of his grass for the next 20 years!

I've opened up on a couple w/my Uzi on "Rock 'n' Roll" a time or 2...Jolly big fun, especially if you tape yr bosses pic to the screen...

Funny. This thread started as a safe way to air a CRT. Turned into "Dangerous Fun 101"

Out of his grass or out of his ass? (Or his eyes.) Nitwits!

Whenever it's garabge collection time in our city, there are always lots of TVs thrown out. A day or so later, all of them ( and i mean ALL ofthem) will have their necks broken off, along with the yoke missing. I know they steal the yokes for copper, but I'm thinking perhaps someone knows about the risks of imploded CRTs and just goes around breaking necks.

I am very, very glad I saved my RCA from that fate...

I once filled a 28" CRT with water at my mothers place. Nobody were able to lift it, so it was left outside until it froze and was busted by the ice. Another time i sprayed some starting fluid down into a CRT and dropped a lit match into it. I guess that was the last time that CRT ever produced any light. I never forget that "FOOFFFF"-sound.

That guy with the pick axe was the most foolish. The set appeared to be on with no vertical sweep. (an easy fix thereby wasting a perfectly good set) Hitting it from the front at close range he was lucky the glass didn't fly right into his face. Utter Brainlessness.

Yeah, the 1st time I shot a TV, I was rewarded w/flying glass particles all over..Kinda got the message to stand back aways...I once took a mid-60s RCA B&W consolette up to the dump where we all shot..After I popped the CRT, I just left it there. This was in May, by Labor Day, there was nothing recognisable left...Even the chassis was just shards of twisted metal.

Something I have noticed is that sets at the dump would have their crt intact but the pins would be all mangled. Was this done by shops to remind them it was no good? The last 2 I aired got an ice pick to the ultor, which seemed very safe to me. The most fun, still, was the 25" GE console that I set on fire. When the heat got to be too much it let out a very healthy "boom". The least fun was the 19" JCPenney (RCA) that was in the doorway while I was cleaning up; the wind blew the door closed & that was that. Thinking about it, I guess that was the only time I ever accidently broke one.

As if you fellas need even more to know how menatlly ill I am...
 

Blowing up a picture tube is about as boring to me as wiping my little behind.

As if that isn't enough...

I would rather walk behind a dog with a pooper-scooper than watch a football game!

I would never hold on to a pooper-scooper let alone pick up anybody's or anything's poop!

I must seem about as weird to you fellas as they come!

:screwy: :confused: :headscrat :dunno:

:wtf: :wtf:

Someone kindly let the vacuum out of the CRT in my 12" Philco before I got it.

Cool avatar! All in the Family is a great show!
 

You mean by accident? How was it let out?
Thanks

The back was barely hanging on the set. It fell and the metal cup hit the socket base. I did get the set as-is for 20 less than the tag said. I found a tube at the 2004 ETF convention and restored it that summer.

lol @ kindly

Wow that was painful to watch someone ruin a good CRT!!

Interesting seeing however....

I've carefully lowered a few into a garbage can and chucked a softball-sized rock in. Works.

This guy I was with one time saw an old classic console set laying on its back and he took a pipe and threw it towards the screen......... It exploded when it hit like it was being uncompressed.......... (Glass went all over)

This was many years ago.........


I wouldnt ever do something like that but sadly not everyone is like us and values good/better older stuff..........

On tubes that aren't worth rebuilding even if rebuilding were available (it isn't available anymore) I whack the evacuation nipple to slowly release the vacuum then once fully down to air smash into small chunks, box, tape shut and then stick in the garage. (No way in hell am I paying a $30 e-waste fee to dispose of a dead tube.)

Ahh this thread helps me understand guys :)

When it doesnt work anymore than letting the air out is best when disposing of it..

Gotta tell ya it really sucks.

Ya I can imagine it does.. CRTs are something we love... We dont ever wanna have to do this :(