= About removing cataracts =

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I have been thinking about the methods talked about in removing the gooey material that causes the problem on the old tubes. I have seen Doug's you tube videos about removing it and then placing the tube, and safety glass back on with little spacers, so the two glass parts never touch...

Here's the question, and sorry if this was already covered, but, Safety glass as it applies to tv's in the days of 21AXP22, seemed to be partly for radiation protection, but in later sets, was it not for glass breakage...?

The way those tubes were constructed, the gooey stuff between both pieces of glass most resembles auto windshield safety glass, where there is a plastic between two pieces of glass, and it keeps the glass from flying all over when it gets hit and broken.....

So for safety sake, when removing cataracts, would it be best practice to put back some type of plastic, or rubber....?

Has anyone ever thought about using shoe-goo, or some rubber cement, or a liquid plastic, kinda like plastic resin, with hardener....?

I know I would not want to experiment on a picture tube, but easily an experiment could be done on two pieces of window glass.....

I know there would be all kinds of problems one could encounter trying to mate the two glass pieces with a liquid between them and not getting any bubbles.....

It was done at the factory somehow.....? Anyone think we should be putting something back in there....?

Or am I wrong, and in those later tubes was it still for radiation, where an addition of the second piece of glass, assuming it had some lead content, is all that we need think about when repairing the cataracts....?