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Originally Posted by Celt
Great little set! I owned one for many years as my bedroom TV. Let a friend borrow it and I'll be damned if she didn't precariously set it on top of stacked plastic milk crates. Her dumb cat knocked it over and pretty much ruined it.
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Wow! She was lucky she or the cat weren't hurt, or the CRT didn't implode. Even a small-screen CRT such as the one in that set is under a heck of a lot of vacuum and will cause a lot of damage if it lets go. Setting the TV atop several milk crates wasn't such a good idea, either. Perhaps if your friend had put the TV on something solid such as a table, it wouldn't have fallen off so easily, even if her cat could get at it. My cat will jump on anything, especially when I'm not looking, so I have to be very careful where I put things in my apartment. Fortunately, he doesn't jump on top of either of my TVs anymore (there was a time he would jump on my living-room set and knock things off it, but that was a long time ago; thank goodness he doesn't do that anymore).
BTW, you said your Panasonic TV was "pretty much ruined" after your friend's cat knocked it over. How much damage was actually done, if not to the CRT? My best guess is that the main PCB shattered, for openers. If the CRT survived such a fall, I'd be amazed, as most of the time, when a TV set falls like that from any great height, the tube will implode as soon as the set hits the ground. Years ago I saw a TV that had been hurled down a flight of stairs in a fit of anger; the tube was still good even after the set hit the wall at the foot of the staircase, and the TV itself worked for some six months afterward.