Quote Originally Posted by jghilino View Post
the tube is a vacuum tube so no gas comes out when they break, they do contain lead though

"It turns out that the glass in a CRT contains a lot of lead. A big CRT can contain up to 5 pounds (2.2 kilograms) of lead."



http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...hors-crts.html
No poison gas, that's good. My wife was upset and worried. As the lead goes, isn't that something that has value, like a buckets full of wheel weights an such? Or is the removal process of the lead inside the CRTs costly?