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[–] 20 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    OMFG they were so insanely heavy!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    In college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year.

    It was fucking baller for the time, though

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    CRT "screens" are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.

    CLUNK! - hiss

    Welp.

    I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    happy it didn't implode. they could have been a bomb...

    acktually... I now have to double check if they implode at all...

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I'm having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM

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