CRT “screens” are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah
Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.
elephantium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 days ago
happy it didn’t implode. they could have been a bomb…
acktually… I now have to double check if they implode at all…
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
OMFG they were so insanely heavy!
Ledivin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year. It was fucking baller for the time, though
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
HEHE I am sure it weighed more than 500 pounds! I had a 24 inch or so TV around that time and holy hell it was nuts how heavy that thing was.