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Hope your feet are OK. Well, now you know for sure what the safety glass is there for. Luckily it didn't implode when it was out of the set. In all the years that I have worked on TVs, I never had one do that. I've had necks crack on CRTs, and once I was working on a customers set in their home (probably close to 30 years ago) and accidentally hit the neck of the tube, and whoosh, had to buy them a new tube, but it didn't implode. When I was a teen, (I'm 63 now) we had an old TV, and to get rid of the tube, my Dad tossed and flung it hard in our back alley, and we had glass 3 houses away to clean up, and it was probably only a 17 inch. Sets back then, years ago like that weren't even in air conditioned houses, but the age of the glass, maybe the band being a little too tight, the rubber around the tube, and the temperature probably all contributed to it imploding. Too bad you weren't wearing shoes!
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