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Figured I'd share this the next time this thread resurfaced: the other day I was moving some things around and needed to set a 21" roundie crt somewhere. I took a folded-up towel and put it on my desk, then placed the crt face down on the towel. I then left the room for several hours.

When I came back I couldn't believe my eyes: the crt was sitting, pretty as you please, face down on the floor. There was just the slightest "tilt" to that towel-I never could have guessed it, but the crt apparently started to slide and then-plop-down it went! It survived the impact, looks like no harm done. But that was a close one. Sometimes I wonder if I should be allowed to handle anything more fragile than an anvil!

Oh-one more thing. In an old thread, somebody mentioned that they used to remove faceplates by dropping the crt facedown from a pretty good distance, and the shock (I guess) would cause it to loosen. There was some debate at the time as to whether this was tongue in cheek, but the poster seemed sincere. Well, not long ago I was preparing to junk a dud bw tube with a bonded faceplate. It did not have cataracts. After airing it, I decided to do a test. I dropped it on the ground numerous times, and then started tossing the crt as high in the air as I could so that it would hit facedown. Nope, all that bottle did was bounce all over the yard, never loosened anything, didn't break, either!