I've been posting a lot on Facebook lately, and sometimes when a story comes up I forget to share it here too. It's a lot of fun over there, but this is a much more august group! Still, I keep looking for the "like" button here when someone says something interesting. It feels a little like trying to press the brake pedal when you're in the passenger seat of the car!
Anyway: I had prepared myself for a major "character building" exercise after always hearing how difficult and dangerous it could be when performing a "cadillac removal." Though I've been monkeying around with old TVs since the sixties, this was the first time I've tried to remove the safety glass from a roundie color CRT, this one a rarely seen 21GVP22. Bracing myself for a difficult job, wearing my safety glasses and thick clothing, I started to pick away at the deteriorated adhesive between the face of the tube and the safety glass. And then the tube just SLID OFF THE GLASS! It scooted halfway across, settled back in and it was all over in 2 seconds. The face of the tube was totally clean and once I hosed it off, so was the safety glass. The 'tools of the trade' (hair dryer and/or kiddie swimming pool) were not needed on this one.
