dartman
Well-known member
Best Buy will recycle anything electronic you drag in working or not for free. We took advantage of that when we were told we had to leave in a no cause 60 day notice at our old long term rental house. Took in a bunch of old crt TVs, 3 at a time and computer monitors.
Pretty sad that many still worked fine but were now worthless plus didn't work with the new digital TV.
If your brave enough you can nock the neck off the tube and it will pop or fizz as the vacuum dissipates then break it up enough to slowly trash but doubt garbage haulers would be happy if they see TV scrap in your can.
Things aren't like they were when I used to rebuild used TVs and eventually have to get rid of the leftovers, and yes if you touch the HV leads going into the back of the tube it can give a very bad shock and can take weeks or months to bleed off if the set is complete.
You can ground/jump the lead to ground but if you don't have a good thick insulated lead it can still bite the crap out you.
Once the tube is degassed all that disapates but still any of that you have to be careful or you'll get a face full if glass or a bad shock.
Government didn't give a crap that they just made useless a bunch of perfectly usable gear when they mandated the digital changeover partly because they wanted to sell the leftover bandwidth to the cell phone providers for a ton of money.
I still have a Toshiba Cinemae Series 34" wide screen crt HD set that works fine, great picture. It weighs 160 lbs and two of us can move it. We use it in the bedroom for now but will soon sadly retire it for a nice 42" Sony led flatscreen we were given for Xmas a few years ago.
It was built in 2005 and I paid 1225 cash for it. I'll be lucky to get 100 out of it now and it has all kinds of cool picture in picture modes you don't get now.
Pretty sad that many still worked fine but were now worthless plus didn't work with the new digital TV.
If your brave enough you can nock the neck off the tube and it will pop or fizz as the vacuum dissipates then break it up enough to slowly trash but doubt garbage haulers would be happy if they see TV scrap in your can.
Things aren't like they were when I used to rebuild used TVs and eventually have to get rid of the leftovers, and yes if you touch the HV leads going into the back of the tube it can give a very bad shock and can take weeks or months to bleed off if the set is complete.
You can ground/jump the lead to ground but if you don't have a good thick insulated lead it can still bite the crap out you.
Once the tube is degassed all that disapates but still any of that you have to be careful or you'll get a face full if glass or a bad shock.
Government didn't give a crap that they just made useless a bunch of perfectly usable gear when they mandated the digital changeover partly because they wanted to sell the leftover bandwidth to the cell phone providers for a ton of money.
I still have a Toshiba Cinemae Series 34" wide screen crt HD set that works fine, great picture. It weighs 160 lbs and two of us can move it. We use it in the bedroom for now but will soon sadly retire it for a nice 42" Sony led flatscreen we were given for Xmas a few years ago.
It was built in 2005 and I paid 1225 cash for it. I'll be lucky to get 100 out of it now and it has all kinds of cool picture in picture modes you don't get now.
