24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
3:46 p.m.
--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> 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 ;-),
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 it. I was young (maybe 25), and must have been very bored. All I
noticed 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?