On 17/01/2019 16:17, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:22:19 GMT
> Alister  wrote:
>
>> modern CRT's are implosion protected, but i would still not want to
>> chance it.
>
>  Some time in the 1980s at a trade show I saw one poor sod
> demonstrating how strong the protection on a CRT, by hitting it square in
> the middle with a claw hammer over and over again all day long. You
> couldn't have paid me enough, it would have shredded his legs if it
> imploded.
>

Me too.

In the eighties, I dropped a bare 9 inch monochrome CRT after receiving
a shock from the cap terminal while carrying it about. It smashed (hit
concrete side on the band edge) and shredded a cardboard box that, as
luck would have it, was between my legs and it. That CRT probably wasn't
implosion proof, or the impact was at a weaker spot than straight on.

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Adrian C

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