ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7

You may ask:

"Why?"

But the universe whispers back:

"Why not?"

Show threadclewMar 7

Why not with the CRTs is that the tubes should be more carefully disposed of and mixing them with... everything else makes that harder.

Am hopefully believing that the actual CRTs *have* been disposed of and we are seeing merely the appliance shells.

@benroyce

Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESMar 7
@clew is it lead? The CRTs have lead in them I think?
Show threadclewMar 7

Mercury in the inside of the tubes? Both?

Plus they can implode in a pretty explody way

@benroyce

Show threadThe TurtleMar 8
@clew @[email protected] years ago my dad used to de-escalate old b/w picture tubes by putting them by the railroad that used to run past our house and shooting the necks off with a .22 from an upstairs window.
Show threadThe TurtleMar 8

@clew in the summer of 1968, my dad also assembled a large (for then) color console television from a Heathkit. A "huge" twenty-five inches!!! The day UPS delivered the picture tube, my mom made us all hide in the basement because she was sure if they broke it it would explode, destroy the house, and kill us all.

For you Heathgeeks, it was a GR-295 in the Mediterranean cabinet. Someone is selling one on Facebook now.

No, I don't want it! We had to eat in the kitchen all the summer of 1968!

Show threadsaxnot
@the_turtle @clew yeah CR tubes are so very instersting and it's so interesting to me how there's this warranted fear of them exploding.
Mar 8 at 6:31amWeb
Show threadThe TurtleMar 8
@saxnot @clew my late mother was young and "implosion" and "explosion" was probably all the same to her.
Show threadsaxnotMar 11
@the_turtle @clew to be fair it matters little when the result is glass shards flying your way
Show threadThe TurtleMar 11
@saxnot @clew in those days they shipped picture tubes pretty heavily. Actual wood-lattice crate like Charles Foster Kane shipped it from Italy or something. I don't remember if UPS had the same limits/restrictions as now. It was 1968.
Show threadclewMar 11

Before containerized shipping! They must have been a real pain to transport!

@the_turtle @saxnot

Show threadThe TurtleMar 11
@clew @saxnot since it only had to go from Benton Harbor, Michigan to rural western New York, they probably just put it on a train. This was 1968, so rail wasn't entirely bankrupt yet, and the Interstate Highway system was about half done.