Just how bad can an Ion burn be?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by init4fun

Arg , don't ya go be givin the landlubbers all our pirate booty secrets ......

Originally Posted by MIPS

Redefining a glass nipple.

Peter is that a CRT you own or a picture you found? To me that looks like a metal anode connection rather than melted glass. If the glass melted the vacuum would suck it in not bulge it out. I may be wrong but I think that is a test pattern tube...I forget the exact name they had but I've read they had broadcast test pattern generators tubes in the 50s that were basically a CRT with a permanent pattern built in and that they had the second anode connection in the center of the screen because the black spot in the center of the common US indian head test pattern would be there.