On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
I was
referring to holding the faceplate on the CRT, not supporting the CRT=
. I plan to replace the metal band, padding with e.g. strapping tape if ne=
cessary. Does that make more sense? - Ian
It wworries me, I can tell you that. That metal band is fixed ot the
glass, it's also deliverately very tight. Somehow it supports the screen
glass during an implosion, protectggn the viewer. It's not just a mouting
band for the CRT.
I haven't seen any metal band (I know what band you mean) on those CRTs
here with "screen rot". The faceplate is just glued in front of the actual
picture tube, and there's a considerable gap between the two (around
0.5-1cm) at the outer edges that is filled with said filler/glue. I've
only seen some kind of thin (and thus quite weak) adhesive tape around the
border. But I'm only speaking of the CRTs in HP terminals and some other
mid-80s computer monitors (e.g. one from a BASIS-108, containing a Philips
CRT).
Christian