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Originally Posted by frenchy
So how was that supposed to work? If the face became shattered, then the band would then pull in on the weak outer 'side' of the tube and sort of collapse it in too, instead of just the tube's face going in by itself and bouncing right off the back and into one's face?
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On more-modern square(ish) CRTs from the 70s on, the rimband certainly seems to work if you're belting a breezeblock or hammer through the screen (mis-spent youth speaking here!) - all the glass'd stay inside the case of the TV, and the shattered remains of the shadowmask/rimband'd be in the case too:
OK, so it's a b&w portable, and the glass is MORE intact than on the 25inch colour tellies we bust at school, but you get the idea. My nefarious mate Rob did that portable, and here he is again with my old monitor:
Obviously the implosion protection isn't infallible:
Not big, not clever, but THAT breaking glass really IS an interesting sound... At least all the tellies that died at our hands were junker/broken modern plastic POSs...
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Originally Posted by frenchy
can you imagine having one of these sets and you see your 3-year-old rapping on the screen with one of his toy hammers?!
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I think the term "bonk bonk bonk BONNNNGGGGGSKLAASSSSH!" would ring a bell. Not funny!