Originally Posted by
auminer
The next question is why did you break the tube in the first place? It's absolutely unecessary.
When I first started scrapping CRT's I'd scrapped about 5 or more, then I had one explode.
And oh boy did it explode. I'm really suprised I still have my eyesight, let alone that I never got a cut from it as it exploded.
The broken sharp shards of glass covered a area of about 15ft dia & I could see the 'pressure wave' force of the actual explosion.
I had the screen up on one edge, sitting it on the rubbish bin & was using a flatblade screwdriver to try & slip the steel metal band from around the outer part of the screen. BOOMMB
I didn't even think at the time that the vacuum would give it soooo much force & because the screens made from 2 different sorts of glass, the join would be a structial weakpoint
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