It cracked me up to see a rebuilder here in New Jersey (now long gone) who used to store his excess "inventory" of dud color and black-and-white CRTs out ON THE LAWN! Face down on a piece of cardboard or some right on the lawn. Summer and winter. Apparently they were none the worse for wear for it as he would bring 'em in, clean 'em up and rebuild 'em as needed. It was a bit surreal; I wish I'd have thougth to take some pictures.
Not to imply that this was "best practices," of course. The whole shop was very dirty and disorganized. I wasn't surprised he went out of business a lot sooner than some other places.
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