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echo: tech
to: Wayne Chirnside
from: Tom Walker
date: 2004-12-03 08:18:02
subject: Re: broken ON switch

-> Yup, them are the puppies to watch for.

-> The CRT anode lead is especially an eye opener
-> as it can pack tens of thousands of volts
-> and is essentially a capacitor with a very high dielectric
-> strength.

-> I've a discharge wand I made with current limiting resistor
-> and plexiglass handle for the probe.

 I have used one of them more then once. In the old days when you just
dumped CRT's in the Trash I always snipped off the glass seal where the
tube was evacuated so it would not Implode whan handled by the Trash
People. 
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