ADM3a screen rot again...

On 31/01/11 13:36, Mr Ian Primus wrote: Hm. I'd be more worried about flying glass shards hitting a major artery. Death by massive blood loss can't be much fun, and AIUI survival rates are pretty slim even with prompt first aid. Medium-low likelihood, but very, *very* high risk. If I was doing this, I'd be using a nice, big metal face-shield (similar to those used for welding), REALLY THICK clothing and similarly thick gloves. At least then any glass shards would have to be pretty damn huge (and flying with considerable energy at short distance) to do any major damage. Though that said -- don't most CRTs have an anti-implosion band, which is intended to stop the glass from spreading out? Or are these CRTs too old (or small?) for that? Though AIUI blowing out a CRT from the front would involve significant force... along the lines of BB guns or rifles, not small tools dropped on the tube face... I know the DG7/32 scope tube in my spares box has a decently thick face vs. the neck thickness (looks to be a good 1cm thick), and that's only a 7cm round-face tube. I'd imagine a 14in or 17in raster-scan tube would have a similarly thick face plate, if not thicker. -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/