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Old 10-17-2014, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jstout66 View Post
I threw out a 20" 90's era Sony with built in VCR.
I flung it in an empty dumpster. I heard the biggest boom and it blew the back of the set. I NEVER saw a CRT implode like that. Back in the repair shop days, we junked a ton of sets and only got a small pffttt when we necked the tube.
Ditto on that. As a (reckless) teen I hauled a 32" Color CRT from an early 90s Toshiba television, with the help of friends, down to a bridge nearby which golf carts would use to drive over the river and dropped it off onto the sand below. It was a good 20 foot drop. The implosion sounded like a cannon firing and shook that sturdy bridge pretty well. Of what remained there was a shadow mask, yoke, and gun inside of a good sized crater of debris.

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