"Market" for old macs?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Tue Dec 27 23:09:07 CST 2005


Scott Stevens wrote:
> It's VERY important to be careful inside the Mac once the cover is
> off.  It's extremely easy to snap the glass nipple on the CRT and
> ruin it.  Apple in their infinite wisdom put a circuit board on
> the back of the neck to act as a 'torque amplifier' for this
> purpose.  Just bumping the board wrong can let all the 'magic
> vacuum' out of your CRT.

Geez -- so is that the board I see at the top of the tube in this picture:

	http://modeltrain.com/mac/se30/6.jpg

I bump that board and the tube will implode?
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