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!