"Market" for old macs?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 00:09, Jim Leonard wrote:
> 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?

If by 'implode', you mean that you'll break the tip off the tube, and 
it'll fill up with air, in a rather anti-climatic and uneventful 
fashion, yes.

I really doubt you could implode the CRT by accidentally hitting that 
board, unless you were using a sledge hammer or something...

Pat
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