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echo: tech
to: Jasen Betts
from: Joe Nicholson
date: 2003-03-30 08:32:00
subject: CPR for HDD

-=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 > yeah, they don't explode but the hard vacuum inside them can cause
 > flyying shards of glass with knife-edges.


 They IMPLODE with inrushing air if the seal is broken.
 The weakest point of a CRT is the nipple formed at the
 end when air is evacuated.



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