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Well when i was a kid i used to go to the city dump with a couple friends , they would be hunting bicycle parts - i would pull tubes from the tv sets there , one day a 23 or 25 inch color set was siting there and i told a friend about the dangers , he wasn't convinced , so i stood 10 feet or so from the set and tossed a big rock dead center into the face and what a boom that was , a piece of glass landed at my feet and he was a believer , so another 25" set was picked on , i tossed the rock and it hit but the crt did not go off , multiple cracks were made in the front and a huge hiss and whine came from the set , this went on and on and as it did you could hear what sounded like things colappsing inside the crt but it did not implode.... i took a 16" sharp set to pieces and had the crt , took it to a friends house and we went to the attic 3 floors up, he dropped it and BOOM but there was a spark of electric with it , i said wow that picture tube was still holding energy .... one more - i put a 21" color table model admiral out for garbage - the crt was weak and the fly was bad , had i known i could have hunted a fly down who knows what would have happened to the set , i didn't think of it at the time and when they loaded it into the truck a minute later i heard a huge boom and then thought geez i didn't air that tube .. too bad i didn't just store the set because i might have been able to save it now.
Mike
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