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Originally Posted by Sandy G
I thought the only way to fix thease damthings was w/a .45...
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If you do that, just be sure you're as far away from the set as you can get. If you shoot the front of the CRT, it will implode, sending glass fragments flying all over the place. I've seen it happen; in fact, I will never forget one day about--oh, must have been 40 years ago or so, I was about 13 years old--when I was out in the back yard in my hometown with my dad; we were going to destroy an old CRT that had been sitting in our garage for years. We wrapped the tube in an old blanket, and then we stood back and my dad threw a sledge hammer at the tube. It imploded, as expected, but one little piece of glass got into my dad's eye (probably flew out from a gap in the blanket or some such thing). Skipping the details, the shard of glass eventually worked its way (overnight) to the corner of the eye where my dad could safely remove it the following morning, but it was a very close call. Thankfully, the eye was not injured.