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Originally Posted by Tom9589
I fully understand the principle behind automotive safety plate glass. Why did we go for so long with a separate safety glass with a huge air gap between the glass and the CRT?
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Don't mistake plate glass for actual safety glass. I know that a lot of the 1950's TVs I junked in the past did have actual safety glass (with the internal bonding agent) in front of the CRT. And that safety glass was between the CRT and the viewer.
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Originally Posted by Tom9589
Also consider CRTs with no safety glass, just a band around the tube under tension.
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I'm assuming in the case of those CRTs there were improvements in the glass to bring up the safety margin.
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All you want is that the safety glass stop the CRT glass from being projected outward toward the viewer, not hold it in place like a windshield.
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With the force of an implosion, a sheet of glass offers little actual protection to keep the front glass from shattering and sending its own shards everywhere.
I would imagine in every instance where a CRT was designed with the resin layer, it was there for a specific safety reason. Otherwise they would have come with just an edge bonding in the first place.
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