"screen mold"

[Christian Corti]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
> At least one person here has used a thin wire to cut the bonding, then
> removed the front piece of glass, cleaned it up, and rebonded it. It
> sounds like a dangerous project to me, not only because the CRT could
> implode while you're cutting it, but also if you don't get the bonding
> strong enough when you put it back together and the CRT then
> subsequnectly implodes, the results would be very unpleasant.

The (plastic) faceplate is *not* an implosion protection, it is a contrast 
and anti-glare plate. All (TV) picture tubes since around 1968 have an
implosion protection that is integral to the tube and not simply glued on 
top of it.
Second, a CRT won't just implode on its own (that's a fairy tale). The 
front screen really needs a very big shock before it cracks. The most 
fragile part of a CRT is the section from the conus to the neck of the 
tube. And if the neck should break the rest won't implode, the parts are 
just too solid. There were several companies in the old days who removed 
the neck of a used CRT and replaced it with one with a new gun system.

Christian