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Originally Posted by Titan1a
Radiation King?
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I wonder how many folks remember (or never knew) there was a radiation "scare" about televisions? For those that would insist upon watching television with the tip of their nose in contact with the CRT, I guess there was some.
Anyway, certain changes were made to televisions to eliminate the problem.
I still have in my collection a HV rectifier tube that was shipped in new GE color table model televisions and retrofitted to earlier produced units that had a leaded rubber coating molded around the glass envelope. The damned tube feels like it weighs half a pound.
Instructions that came with the tube new warned of handling the tube without gloves.
Apparently, the Simpsons writer who wrote that episode must have been aware of that issue or perhaps discovered it researching early televisions for his script.
John