25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
11:59 a.m.
--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I think the rock is similar to a hammer :-) Ny point was that while a CRT
wil limplode if you break it, it doesn't happen very offten unless you're
throwing a brick at it or soemthing like that.
The risk of a CRT imploding is small anyway (has
anyone
here ever seen it
happen spontanuously -- hitting a CRT with a hammer or
similar doens't
count ;-),
what about throwing a rock at a crt's face? Does that count? I did this once a long time ago, w/some terminals I bought
from a library. I
hadn't blossomed into a vintage collector yet, the stuff was just junk
back then, so I took at least one of them outside and proceeded to smash
I am wondering why you bought said old terminals if you had no use for them.
it. I was young (maybe 25), and must have been very
bored. All I noticed
When I was 25 I was actively preserving PDP11s etc.
was that the rock, which was something of an odd
shape, between 1.5 and
2.5 inches depending on how you measured it, was split in half. Is it
possible the implosion split the rock? That's an on topic question,
isn't it?
Possible. I think the rock was already weak (perhaps partially cracked)
and the force of the implosion finished it off.
In any case, a terminal CRT is likely to ahve integral implosion
protection, meaning that while it did implode when you threw that rock at
it, the result was nowhere near as violent as it could have been. So
think what it could have been like and thus why I am concerned aobut
removing any implosion protection from CRTs.
-tony