Digging into the CTC-9

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by peverett

I have some early 1950s Hoffman B&W sets. The safety glass on these is true safety glass with the embedded plastic layer.

Ditto on a late 40s RCA that I checked. The safety glass on my '53 Philco does not have the embedded (PVB?) layer, but is nearly 1/4" thick and appears that it could be tempered... pretty strong hunk of glass.
How thick are the curved shields that have been removed from the bonded color CRTs ?

jr