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Originally Posted by Brach
You must be one of the quickest serviceman imagineable.
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Well, I was a little younger and moved a little faster back then. I was lucky that I didn't meet up with flying glass. I will say that tube didn't make quite the bang that a 21" non-implosion protected tube did when I threw it away.
I also had a friend that had a "near miss" when a tube imploded. He had an early '80's Sylvania console that used the inline tri-pot tube. That tube had mounting ears on it and no metal degaussing shield. He tried to replace that tube with one of the Zenith tubes of the era that had no mounting ears and used a degaussing shield. He fabricated some sort of metal band to hold the Zenith tube in the Sylvania case. When he sat the TV in it's normal, upright position - BOOM! I guess the band that he fabricated put too much pressure on the tube. He was not hurt; but, he had a mess to clean up.