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[dysan27.livejournal.com]

Now this takes dedication...


If you haven't seen a CRT broken before, that front glass can be Thick.

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[jjjiii]

I think I can see the problem...

[curvemudgeon.livejournal.com]

Yep. Looks like someone tried pulling the power out by yanking on the cord instead of the plug. No matter how many times you try to tell people...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Impressive!

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

Dayum.

But haven't we all had days where we've wanted to do just this?

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

I question whether any of us have had days we haven't wanted to do just this.

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

It looks like a portal into another dimension. I have this irresistible urge to stick my arm in there and see what happens...

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

Quite likely a really big electric shock?

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

You're no fun :P

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

"There's no picture and it just makes this buzzing noise .."

I knew of someone who made the mistake of trying to take the video driver board off a CRT that had been vented, while the thing was still on. It arced over through the video board, and him, quite nicely. I hear he survived. :\

[ravenofdreams.livejournal.com]

Hot damn! Someone was really trying - I would have thought the keyboard would give first.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I recognize that model. While the glass IS thick, that keyboard isn't just plastic, it's got a SERIOUS metal frame.

(It's a Digital dumb terminal, similar model to an IBM dumb terminal...)

[jecook]

... I think the pic was staged, but still...

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Agreed. For one, there's nowhere near enough glass scattered about the area to account for that size of hole.

[jarad.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the grey foam behind the glass holding the keyboard in place.

[jimpossible84.livejournal.com]

Someone should make a plastic model of this that you could sucktion-stick to a screen as a joke to make it LOOK like someone did this to your computer!

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

That's evil. And twisted genius. ;)

[mirar.livejournal.com]

Tineye (http://tineye.com/) gave me this higher resolution picture: http://www.it-server-support-london.com/resources/12919/assets/images/it-engineer.jpg

Seems to be a Finnish keyboard and monitor.

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that looks like Finnish on the label stuck to the keyboard ..

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Possibly staged, but even if it were, still shared around IS&T. They appreciate the laughs. :)

[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

The front glass is Thick because if the tube implodes, you want the side *away* from you to be doing the imploding, at least until it lets the vacuum out. ;)

(Plus I think the glass has some lead in it in case the secondary anode voltage gets too high and the tube starts emitting X rays. It's *supposed* to shut down the HV before that point, and will if someone hasn't futzed around with the flyback and X-ray circuitry, but the glass will stop at least a little of it, I think.)

Then there was the call where I had to explain to a freaked out lady why she didn't have to worry about her LCD emitting radiation .. ::facepalm::