I once had a 25" TV kind of… “un-skin” itself. It slid off of a hand-truck by accident, and while falling a whole five inches to the ground, the sheer weight and mass of the tube pushed itself through the brittle plastic housing of the set. What was left was a pile of plastic shrapnel and circuit boards, with a fully intact tube sitting atop it. It was only ten years old at the time, and I think it was either bad plastic or it lived its life in a sunny spot, letting UV destroy the material.
TV tube glass is actually surprisingly robust along the front and sides, despite containing a vacuum. It’s the neck that you have to be careful with. One false move and it’ll snap, destroying the whole thing.
I once had a 25" TV kind of… “un-skin” itself. It slid off of a hand-truck by accident, and while falling a whole five inches to the ground, the sheer weight and mass of the tube pushed itself through the brittle plastic housing of the set. What was left was a pile of plastic shrapnel and circuit boards, with a fully intact tube sitting atop it. It was only ten years old at the time, and I think it was either bad plastic or it lived its life in a sunny spot, letting UV destroy the material.
TV tube glass is actually surprisingly robust along the front and sides, despite containing a vacuum. It’s the neck that you have to be careful with. One false move and it’ll snap, destroying the whole thing.