3 Apr
2012
3 Apr
'12
12:36 p.m.
if there is any postings in this thread which could later be found by
someone unfamiliar with CRT's and they were posted in jest, can someone
tag those threads and postings?
this is way to serious a subject to have joke material in for someone to
discover in a couple of years and blow up a CRT of any sort.
I love a practical joke, I have played quite a few in my time, and I have
had plenty played aginst me (if you're going to 'give' you have to
'take' as well).
But a practical joke has to be funny for all conceened in the end. The
victim may moan at the time, but will end up laughing I hope. If only
laughing at himself.
For that reason, I do not regard anything that could cause loss or damage
to the victims property (the perpetrator's property is another matter
:-)), injury or death to be a practical joke. Period. And therefore I
will necer jest (not even on 1st April) about things that could be
dangerous, like CRTs or high voltages, or that could cause serious damage
or loss of data.
Of course I can make mistakes in my postings, and I cannont be held
legally responsible for anything that happens if you follow my advice.
But I can assure you it's all 'in good faith'.
There was a jest, cleaerly recognised as such, in at least one service
manual years ago. When it came to fitting the yoke to the CRT, the
instructions were soemthing like 'Tighten the clamp until the CRT
implodes, then back of 1/4 of a turn' :-).
Like joking about observing solar eclipse events on a
serious astronomy
thread in the obvious ways.
Just saying. I am still not sure from what I saw if anyone was joking
around, with things like the hot wire treatment,etc, but I'd never post
that as any approach unless one had their life insurance paid up.
There are 2 issuee here, IMHO. One is the dgner to the person doign the
repair, the other is the danger to possible future uses of the monitor if
the CRT implosion protection is not adequate.
It is perfectly possible to use a hot (not very hot, certainly not
glowing) wire to cut the adhesive between the 2 layers of the faceplate.
It's moderately hazardous, no worse than anything else many of us do. I
would not want to do it without googles or better a face shield. nd
perhaps the advice in the MG1 technical manual of a 'heavy cnvas apron to
proect those other precious parts' is a good idea too.
This is very much something you should only attmept if you know what you
are doing.It's like working with the mains or using machine tools. Plenty
of people do those things and live to tell the tale. Equally, a mistake
can be fatal, so you need to know what you are doing and take care.
Personally, I'd still want to rebond the faceplate to the CRT, even
though, given the tension band, it's probably OK without it. That's an
issue of safety to future users. A CRT imploding is not fun, I can assure
you.
-tony