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A disaster happened!!!
The thing is VERY heavy, so, as I was going to move it around, so I could have space to work on the back cover, I decided to enlist the help of my brother. BIG MISTAKE. I thought that he was strong, since he regularly goes to the gym, and takes all those vitamins. "This is the right man to help me" I thought. I lifted it on the left, and he lifted it on the right. HE TREMBLED, HE COULDN'T STAND THE WEIGHT!!!! THE WHOLE THING WENT TO THE FLOOR, RIGHT OVER MY RIGHT FOOT!
I was mortified. There weren't injuries to my foot ( only a little persisting pain, it happened 8 hours ago ), but I instantly feared the worst, I feared that the CRT had broken. I lifted the whole thing in panic, but AMAZINGLY the CRT survived, and even the glass in front the CRT remained intact. Only the plastic mask surrounding the CRT was broken. I was very upset over that broken mask, but at the same time relieved that it wasn't the CRT that broke. It will be a pain in the neck to get another mask ( or, in the worst case scenario, to repair that broken one ).
This thing was, no doubt, a custom job. There's an american TV inside ( I looked inside ), that I couldn't identify the brand, and the radio is a brazilian radio. It's made of a noble and very heavy wood, "imbuia" ( I don't know the name of that wood in English ), so this thing will never get infested by termites. I was so, very lucky that I didn't ended with a crushed foot.
Below you can see pictures taken before and after the tragedy.
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