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Originally Posted by NoPegs
There's an untapped market here I think... Obviously the only "sane" way to do this is to use a pre-war pyrex tube, but people still drink from "lead crystal" vessels so I'd venture that after cleaning out the phosphors and getter etc with some stiff acid any standard CRT envelope would be reasonably safe. Could possibly require annealing but since we're not trying to do it while pulling a vacuum on it I think that's a trivial task...
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Imagine if CRTs had been annealed to begin with, they would be impossible to air out without an implosion. Of course those granular chunks of glass are far less likely to cause injury than shards. The pane of tinted glass that mounted in front of the screen on the 1986 Hitachi console I had briefly had been toughened; I was surprised when I threw it into the dumpster on top of the giant trash bag that contained the aired-out CRT and the pane didn't break. Throwing a brick in on top of it solved the mystery as to why.