CRT implosions

[Gordon JC Pearce]

jpero at sympatico.ca wrote:

> My coworker was taking something from shelf and unfortunely he 
> snagged a line cord belonging to the 13" tv sitting on top shelf 9 
> feet up and yanked it down I was only 10 feet away.  That tv hit the 
> cement floor dead center on it's face with a glassine shrill "BOOM!"
> 
> Opened it up, yoke & neck went through inside the CRT leaving huge 
> jagged hole where flare used to be and only mark on face is scratch 
> marks.

Don't forget that the scan coils are a big heavy assembly with lots of 
copper and ferrite, and they're only held in place because they're glued 
to a glass tube about the diameter of but with thinner walls than a 
large test tube.

Gordon.