my crt exploded, 56 packard bell

[miniman82]

I've had CRT's let go for seemingly no reason before, but none explosively. Mainly cracked neck glass, but it's always due to stress in the glass that hasn't been annealed out. All it takes is the right combination of temperature gradients, and BOOM! My main guess is that sometimes if you watch the set for short periods, the glass near the hot cathode gets hot while the rest of the tube is relatively cool. No idea what caused your tube to let go, but I bet you needed new drawers...lol