1 Apr
2012
1 Apr
'12
1:16 p.m.
VR201? Remove screw under cover in the centre of the rear panel between
plug and pots. Lower adjustment leg to fully out.=20
Screen blue spot?=20
a) Run a hot wire (Styrofoam cutter) between the outer screen and the fro=
nt
of the tube.
Or =20
b) (only for CRT familiar persons) Remove the tube completely. Place in
something to support it at the face end. Don goggles and gloves. Chip awa=
y
the outer faceplate bit by bit. Peel off the soft plastic. Polish up the
tube front, rebuild the monitor and put spacers at the four corners then
replace casing. Does wonders for the brightness as well.
Look, I know what day it is, but practical jokes are supposed to be
funny, and not endager innocent bystnaders at som random future time.
CRT implosions are not common, I agree. But they must be serious enough
tat even in the less safety-concious times of 50 years ago all TV sets
had some kind of implosion protection.
Unless you have definiete infroamtion to the contrary, I will go by what
every CRT data sheet I've looked at says. That the twin-panel faceplate
acts like a laminated windscreen and supports te screen i nthe even of an
implosion, preventing the user from being showeed in fragments of glass.
Most CRT datasheets also say that no attempy must be made to remvoe the
outer layer, but I think it's popsible to do this safely _provided you
then re-bond the layers together properly_. LEaving off the outer layer,
or not bonding it to the frotn of the envelope is not acceptable IMHO.
You don't know when the CRT could implode, or who might be in front of it
at the time.
-tony