Re: hisssss

Back when I was a kid and had time to play around with electronics (instead of
being beaten over the head with it daily so I can pay my bills) I had brought
home a TV from a junkyard that had a huge circle in the front where the
phosphors were gone. Someone had shot at the front of the tube. I THOUGHT the
vacuum wasn't there anymore (looked like a classic case of air coming in and
blowing off the phosphor). When I cut off the seal on the back of the tube
that sucker (no pun intended) let out a screaming whistle like I had never
heard before or since. I headed for the high ground just in case it shattered,
but it didn't. But it sure made a lot of noise for quite a while.

"Matt J. McCullar" wrote:

> Kurt Mahan wrote:
> >
> > I hate when I do something stupid and the vacuum escapes from the tube.
>
> Well, don't take it too hard. On my first day on the job in a TV repair
> shop many years ago, I found out the hard way that it's possible to BURN
> OUT a projection TV tube by turning its brightness up too high. I've
> never seen that anywhere else. Bad engineering, if you ask me.
>
> Once I was given a video monitor to work on that had the picture tube
> smashed in from the front. "What happened?" I asked. The owner
> explained that an air hose got away from him in the factory and the
> metal handle at the end smashed into it. It waggled all over creation
> like a ferret on crack.
>
> > The only good thing is that I'm posting to the rasterlist and not the
> > vectorlist. And the tube had Q*Bert burned in a little excessively..
> > (I like Q*Bert, but it sure burns into phospers...)
>
> Ain't that the truth!? Other games you can identify from their dead
> monitors: Pac Man, Pole Position (GAME OVER in big, black letters),
> Q*Bert... :)
>
> Matt J. McCullar
> Arlington, TX
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