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Wow, that implosion photo is scary.
The safety glass blew out, too, as David noted. But who knows -- had it not been there, perhaps the lady would have been injured more seriously. The safety glass might have slowed down the CRT shards, broken them into smaller pieces, etc.
You have to wonder what happened right before the implosion. A frying sound, followed by a loud pop. I wonder if an electrolytic capacitor blew up. If a can electrolytic blew its top, or took off like a little rocket, I could imagine that cracking the neck of a CRT.
I have never had a radio start on fire, but I have had a couple of electrolytics that popped with an impressive firecracker noise.
In my irresponsible teen years, we used to take our .22 rifles to the town dump, shooting at rats and every glass item in sight. We wrecked plenty of old radios and appliances, but we never managed to blow up a TV. Thank God there is no videotape of me on those excursions, shooting up old console radios that I would now gladly rescue and restore.
Phil Nelson
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