[Dennman6]

Again, this is a bit of "hijacking" the thread, but I have a question. My parents' first new TV was an RCA Victor New Vista 23 inch B&W console in colonial maple(sorry that it's not even a color set I'm discussing). It still functions, although I haven't fired it up since 2006. It uses a 23ENP4 CRT, which is the bonded safety type with the metal retaining spring that holds it in place. Around 1976 when I was 14 I swapped out this CRT into another RCA set that was probably a year or two older & exhchanged tubes. I had ZERO specs or info on either tube. They just LOOKED alike, so I experimented. The 23ENP4 had been used with a brightener & I thought the other sets' CRT would be an improvement. I wore a heavy winter coat, gloves, & safety goggles I found on my dad's workbench. Swapped out the tubes, no problems. I was scared of tightening that retaining spring though.

About a year later I had a tantrum(age 15) when I was grounded from watching TV & threw a toenail clipper at the set, nicking the screen. I used to clip my toenails in the living room, which disgusted my mother-out would come the vacuum cleaner right away. All these years later the nick on the screen has been there & I've had it on several times right up to 2006. I want to try & get this tube rebuilt by Scotty at Hawkeye before they close in July, & I mentioned the nick. He said he couldn't do anything about that but could certainly rebuild the tube. So is this nick in the CRT a safety issue when I try to remove the retaining ring? I'd had to have an implosion-with my luck the glass shards would head striaght for my carotids or jugulars!