It wasn't the shock
Dave Moore
by their customers.
=^^=
Petercoe
caused by hi voltage. It was a metal cabinet Zenith. When I pulled my hand
back from the shock, I tore a piece of flesh out of the back of my hand.
Looking for comments from other tv men.
Also another service man who was cleaning the front glass on a tv - Yes we
used to have to remove the crt to clean the safety glass - said the lady
leaned over to clean the outside while he was in the cabinet cleaning the
inside. He could see more than he needed to, and she was saying, "does this
look ok".
He said another time he was led to the tv by a lady whose house dress closed in
the back, but not very well. He was fixing the tv when all of a sudden she
jumped off the chair she was sitting in, said "oh" and ran into the bedroom.
She wouldn't come out to pay him, but told him to leave the bill and she would
send a check.
Huh?
glass from a pict tube. The thing imploded while I was unwinding the metal
band. Scared the hell out of the cat who seemed to disappear into thin air.
I managed to escape with only minor cuts and a lesson learned the hard way.
Ouch !!!
Petercoe wrote in message <19990213233317...@ng-cd1.aol.com>...
Terry DeWick
>The last injury I suffered while in the tv business- not counting my back- was
>caused by hi voltage. It was a metal cabinet Zenith. When I pulled my hand
>back from the shock, I tore a piece of flesh out of the back of my hand.
>
>Looking for comments from other tv men.
>
>Also another service man who was cleaning the front glass on a tv - Yes we
>used to have to remove the crt to clean the safety glass - said the lady
>leaned over to clean the outside while he was in the cabinet cleaning the
>inside. He could see more than he needed to, and she was saying, "does this
>look ok".
>He said another time he was led to the tv by a lady whose house dress closed in
>the back, but not very well. He was fixing the tv when all of a sudden she
>jumped off the chair she was sitting in, said "oh" and ran into the bedroom.
>She wouldn't come out to pay him, but told him to leave the bill and she would
>send a check.
Had a TV repair booth at local flea market we called him brand X, herd
big boom one Sunday, seems tube ears were in wrong location and set
was basket mount, so he cut off band to make it fit , did not let go
untill he got it all of the way into console (on face), he didn't even
get a scrach !! LUCK !!
Petercoe
much to tighten it. I was told, " just until you hear the glass start to
crack".
Tony Duell
: Reminds me of my apprenticeship. I was installing a picture tube and asked how
: much to tighten it. I was told, " just until you hear the glass start to
: crack".
Similar to the comment in a letter in this month's 'Television' about
tightening the clamp bands on old CRTs.
'Tighten it until the tube implodes then back off a quarter turn' :-)
-tony
Huh?
Sam Goldwasser wrote in message ...
>In article <hXHx2.1321$1p....@news1.atl> "Huh?"
<rlat...@SPAMbellsouth.net> writes:
>
>> Back when I was a kid I got the brillant idea to separate the thick
piece of
>> glass from a pict tube. The thing imploded while I was unwinding the
metal
>> band. Scared the hell out of the cat who seemed to disappear into thin
air.
>> I managed to escape with only minor cuts and a lesson learned the hard
way.
>> Ouch !!!
>
>If that is the band around the front faceplate, it is an integral part of
the
>structure - called for obvious reasons - 'integral implosion protection'.
>Needlessto say, it should NEVER be removed unless the vacuum has be let
out,
>in, whatever one does with a vacuum!
>
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Joe
wrote:
Hi Sam, I got my User ID from the metal band<G>. Anyway, a friend of
mine decided to cut the rimband off a picture tube, I wasn't there, he
told me about it. This was a 25" RCA tube he wanted to fit into a
Zenith TV (don't ask me why). What happened in the next few seconds
after he cut the rimband, the picture tube imploded in his face,
imbedding the neck and yoke assembly in the ceiling, he came out with
a cut about half an inch above his right eye that needed 6 stitches to
close. Had that shard of glass been half an inch lower, he would be
wearing an eyepatch or have a glass eye for the rest of his life.
I told him what a $^@%* idiot he was, he's lucky he didn't kill
himself or blind himself, and also told him NEVER cut the rimband off
a picture tube that has vacuum. I just wanted to add that!:)
Joe
Tom MacIntyre
>Hi Sam, I got my User ID from the metal band<G>. Anyway, a friend of
>mine decided to cut the rimband off a picture tube, I wasn't there, he
>told me about it. This was a 25" RCA tube he wanted to fit into a
>Zenith TV (don't ask me why). What happened in the next few seconds
>after he cut the rimband, the picture tube imploded in his face,
>imbedding the neck and yoke assembly in the ceiling, he came out with
>a cut about half an inch above his right eye that needed 6 stitches to
>close. Had that shard of glass been half an inch lower, he would be
>wearing an eyepatch or have a glass eye for the rest of his life.
>
>I told him what a $^@%* idiot he was, he's lucky he didn't kill
>himself or blind himself, and also told him NEVER cut the rimband off
>a picture tube that has vacuum. I just wanted to add that!:)
>
>Joe
>
A bit off topic, but the same potential result...I found a .22 caliber
bullet when I was about 7, took it to a rock quarry, put it on a rock,
facing away from me, and hit it with another rock. Seven-year-olds
don't have the smarts to realize that it could have been pointing in
another direction by the time the lead left the case...
Tom
Petercoe
Sam Goldwasser
> I wonder why they print warning labels anyhow.
L*A*W*Y*E*R*S!
Don
>
> A bit off topic, but the same potential result...I found a .22 caliber
> bullet when I was about 7, took it to a rock quarry, put it on a rock,
> facing away from me, and hit it with another rock. Seven-year-olds
> don't have the smarts to realize that it could have been pointing in
> another direction by the time the lead left the case...
>
> Tom
This really isnt that dangerous, not reccommended, but would be hard to
be seriously injured exept maybe the eyes. There wont be much pressure
build up, so what happens is the cartride explodes (and shreds)...the
bullet doent go very far. There is some small possibility that a
fragment from the brass might break loose and go a little ways. The
scenes where somebody throws a handfull of cartridges into a campfire
and it kills the bad guys is just old 1950's hollywood BS. You got to
confine the cartridge in a chamber to allow pressure to build and force
the bullet down the barrel to get a lethal weapon. It may be different
if you have a 19th century cartridge loaded with blackpowder that is
still good. They made these a few years till smokeless powder came out.
The blackpowder is much more explosive. You still wont get any decent
bullet motion, but you might have more brass fragmenting and flying off
as flak.
When I was a kid, I busted several old tvs. I never saw any fragments go
very far, but it was still stupid, as a piece of glass could have taken
out an eye. Still, though, not as dangerous as people like to say. If I
could wear goggles, I would bust'em all day long for a decent paycheck!
Don
Tom MacIntyre
>In article <19990219091914...@ng-fp1.aol.com> pete...@aol.com (Petercoe) writes:
>
>> I wonder why they print warning labels anyhow.
>
>L*A*W*Y*E*R*S!
Yeah...we all chose the wrong (or right) field...in answer to one
post...had the bullet hit me, and managed to find the proper blood
carrier to allow me to bleed to death...a bullet is a bullet...isn't
it? A lot of gunslingers died in the 1800's when they were shot...they
didn't have the benefit of much...how long is the barrel on a
Derringer?
Tom
Tom MacIntyre
>On 19 Feb 1999 16:15:45 GMT, s...@stdavids.picker.com (Sam Goldwasser)
>wrote:
>
>>In article <19990219091914...@ng-fp1.aol.com> pete...@aol.com (Petercoe) writes:
>>
>>> I wonder why they print warning labels anyhow.
>>
>>L*A*W*Y*E*R*S!
>
>Sam said a dirty word. ;-)
>--
>
>We are Dyslexia of Borg.
>Prepare to have your ass laminated.
I think I finally figured out what your signature means...
Tom
PS-Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac? He stayed up
all night, wondering if there was a dog...