4 Oct
2005
4 Oct
'05
5:38 p.m.
I'll never seen anything horrendous in so far as
implosions. I used
to service Mac's "back in the day" and had to replace a few CRT's on
the original Macs. Apple would send the replacement monitor in a box
and inside was another box that you placed the whole mac inside of,
you'd follow the standard discharge and then purposely snap the tip
of the neck off the back of the monitor before closing up the box and
disposing of it, it was a scary moment the first time, but just a
quick zip of air and it was done, never had anything happen, did a
few dozen monitor replacements and disposals.
Yeah, a small crack in a not-particularly-stressed part of the tube is
rather unlikely to produce spectacular implosions. (The evacuation
pinch-off is about as unstressed a part of the tube as it gets.)
I remember, as a kid, going to the village dump. There were usually
some dead TVs with the cases gone, and I'd throw a rock into the CRTs
from as far away as I could throw rocks (even then
I'd heard of CRT
implosion danger). Never seemed to be much more dramatic than
a glass
vessel of similar size and shape with no pressure differential, but of
course I was rather far away. It also could be that a thrown rock is
not the sort of stress that produces implosion failures.
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