Originally Posted by
eesakiwi
I break the gas vacuum first, mostly by just wiggling the circuit board or smacking the plug end with a hammer or pliers, facing away from it & covering my eyes.
Once all of the airs been sucked in & its safe to work on it.
I use a Phillips screwdriver to undo the two stainless steel bands.
Then I twist the yoke sideways till its loose & pull it off.
Pop the two black metal clips holding the two iron ceramic rings on the yoke & then I pop out the inner copper coils out of the plastic.
The ceramic rings, I break it up with a hammer untill its broken all thru & the copper wire is still intact.
Then I keep sorting thru the loose copper coil to get rid of all the ceramic, that can be checked with a
magnet.
response to this post - you stated " two iron ceramic rings on the yoke " in all my TV & CRT's I found them all to be steel and I sell as short I only mention this in case you don't realize they are a valuable part of the yolk / once you have a bucket of them.
The vacuum I find this works well , pop off the red rubber cap attached to transformer - once off take a small punch & pop it in to that spot that the rubber cap was pluged . I find it never breaks the glass and seems a safe way to allow air to suck in
PS
use a punch with a nice rubber handle as should the hammer also be .
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