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Originally Posted by Username1
It also could have been broken by something hitting it..... My uncle's Zenith
B&W set had the screen crack on the face across one corner.... No real evidence
of being hit, no identifiable point of impact. We all never figured out if it just
cracked, or if someone just would not admit to hitting it.... Anyway, new tube....
This was when I was a kid, 1970's Tv was a late 60's 23" or so, really nice
floor model, all knobs on right, with speaker under the knobs, light up channel
changer knob, number in the middle - if anyone remembers the years for that...
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The set shown has a safety glass, so a hit from the front wouldn't have broken the CRT. It would've broken the safety glass, which was tempered glass, like auto glass.
Your uncle's set, was probably a B/W set, with the tension frame CRT. It was probably a stress crack, which happened occasionally.
I'm sure, many of you heard of CRT's imploding, even when the TV wasn't on or no one was in the room.
