Weight of 32" to 35" flat screen CRT tv's?

A friend just bought one. It took two men to deliver it to his home.

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I'm not sure about 500 lbs, but they are extremely heavy. I lifted one side of a 32" Trinitron once and would estimate the set weighs close to

300 lbs. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to carry it very far.

"Dan" wrote in news:gfKdne8WKpedG33YnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

You figure out how thick the glass needs to be on a tube that big, considering that there is 15 pounds pressing on every square inch of the tube.

Then figure out how much a piece of glass that thick is going weigh when it is as big as the bell and neck of the CRT.

For the faceplate, I think you will want a large safety factor, in case someone hits the glass, plus a safety shield in front of that, so don't forget to add that weight.

Don't forget the weight of the case and electronics, even though those are small compared with the CRT itself.

Yeah, the sets are 'really that heavy', but with the right tools and plenty of muscles, people do put them in upstairs rooms.

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Not just the glass, Trinitron tubes also have a very heavy Invar frame to support the aperature grill. The dead 27" tube I dissected had a frame made of nearly 1" square metal bars.

The typical weight for a Sony 32 inch flat screen CRT TV boxed can be about

170 to 220 lbs, depending on the model.

Why would you want such a monster anyways?

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A friend just bought one. It took two men to deliver it to his home.

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Well I don't personally need one since I already have a bigger TV, but I can certainly see why someone would want one. The picture is phenomenal on a nicely adjusted one, maybe not as sharp as a plasma, but a whole lot cheaper. I'm still a fan of CRT projection myself, but then all I use my TV for is watching movies.

The new 36" WEGA CRT monitor is just over 200 pounds unboxed. Older models might be a tad heavier. Gorgeous picture for about $800.

The CRT models may last 20 or 30 years. How long will the plasma/LED etc models last?

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I owned a 32" Mitsubishi back in 1999 and was able to lift it off the floor partially. My best guess it weighed 250lbs.

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To watch until my 72" DLP arrives.

duh...

That's too bad, I was just going to ask for their PHONE NUMBERS!!! ;-)

I did look on the Sony site (thought of it right after I posted, naturally ;-\ ). They list their 36" FD Trinitron® WEGA® Digital TVKD-36FS170 as weighing 216#s. Doesn't say though if this is shipping weight, though I'm guessing the packing wouldn't add more than 20#s, if that. So the mothers ARE heavy, and older examples probably even more so. I actually DID have a larger TV, a Samsung LN-S4695D 46" LCD television, which I returned recently due to dissatisfaction with the picture (cloudiness & poor shadow detail, which I posted about here earlier). At this point, I'm waiting until 1080p plasmas become more prevalent/CHEAPER. Would love to get this award-winning

50" Pioneer plasma, but at 8 grand, my wife'd kill me ;-) I thought a cheap used flat screen of decent size would be a good stop-gab that we could move to the bedroom or elsewhere later on. Having a helluva time going back to my 18 year old 25" sharp!!!

Thanks for the replies.

Dan

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