Sync on something other than green for the sake of all that is

No, hence the smiley... Much of the time I _am_ a moron... Thanks, but that is actually untrue, assuming you know other people on this list at least as well as you know me. I didn';t say they were totally safe :-). But a lot of the fears are unfounded. Modern rimbanded CRTs are unlikely to violently implode unless they've been tampered with. It is very hard to accidentally come into contact with the EHT (supply to the final anode), it really ezists only within the potted flyback transformer, and the cable/conenctor to the CRT. You are not going to fid it on PCB traces, etc. The mains is an ever present hazard, of coruse, and one that can easily be lethal. Many colour monitos use SMPSus with about 350V DC derrived from the mains, and that is on bare PCB tracks. But you find that in computer PSUs too, and for some reason I don't find the same reluctance when I suggest that sombondy has a go at repairing, say, an H777 PSU as I do when I suggest they do the same to a monitor. -tony