Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird.

• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OMFG they were so insanely heavy!

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    • 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

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      • 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.

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• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  CRT “screens” are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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…

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