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.
CRT “screens” are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah
there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.
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.
happy it didn’t implode. they could have been a bomb…
acktually… I now have to double check if they implode at all…
Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I’m having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:
youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
happy it didn’t implode. they could have been a bomb…
acktually… I now have to double check if they implode at all…
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I’m having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:
youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM