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I never thought that any CRT safety glass was meant for radiation protection, but I never looked it up one way or the other to find out.
Likely, the removal of the PVA on our bonded CRTs does reduce the overall safety of the sets, but I am not worried about it personally. When millions of TV sets were sold and treated casually in all types of environments, it probably mattered statistically. Non-bonded CRTs (21FBP22, for example) were always used with what I assume is a separate piece of true safety glass, but then if the faceplate from a 21FJP22 is just ordinary glass, the ultimate "added risk" of a no-longer-bonded tube is, I suppose, that it could implode in such a way that its pieces would also shatter the now-separate faceplate and send those pieces flying outward too. Again, it is not something that I am planning to worry about; I would like to hear the opinions of others.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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