Re: Happy Fun Band...

Doug Jefferys wrote:
> ...I actually got a little curious as to the metal rim band of a CRT and
> did some poking around on USENET. As a matter of fact, a few people
> *have* removed it while the tube was under vacuum and lived to tell
> about it, but only barely:
> In a nutshell, taunting happy fun band results in an almost immediate
> implosion.

I had an incident a few years ago in which a Space Fury (sold to me by
Duncan Brown; note this is clearly on-topic for vectorlist) tipped over...
the plywood frame around the monitor got crunched, and the CRT slipped out
of its band. (The bolts holding the CRT to the frame were attached to the
band.)

The CRT didn't implode--sounds like I got lucky! I never was able to get
that band back on, though.

--
Dave