25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
2:33 a.m.
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
The risk of a CRT imploding is small anyway (has anyone here ever seen it
ahppen spontanuously -- hitting a CRT with a hammer or simialr doens't
count ;-), but it's serious enough that manufactuers bother about it.
Given that there are devices for easily breaking glass that are
essentially sharp points, would a jab from a soldering iron be able to
implode a CRT? I've done this by accident several times. Before anyone
panics, the CRT in question was sent to the recycler years ago.
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In the case of your HP250, even thoguh you are not
running it it could
still be an implosion risk without the correctl-bonded faceplate.
Hmm, I wonder if it's worth worrying about - I suspect that the chance is
so small that other threats are far more likely, but still...