If you do smash the glass, there's a little aluminum piece at the very end of the glass. But then once you do smash the glass, your chance of getting cut goes up about 100%,
for a 5 cent piece of aluminum. Also if you smash the entire thing (don't reccomend it) there is a light little piece of steel mesh/steel cone inside with 4 little pieces of copper at the edges. Safety glasses a MUST yes totally agree.
I generally snip smash and strip the larger inductors off the boards before selling the boards to the scrapyard.
Dont put too much time into a TV, you're probably only going to make 5$ or so off it. Once the yoke is off, that's 80% of your money. Give it a single hit with a sledgehammer to smash the ferrite frame, and pull the #1 copper off.(#2 if you cant get the glue clay crap off)
The degaussing cable (taped black wire loop around tube) is real easy to strip.
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