What can i do with an old crt?

On a sunny day (Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:39:08 -0700 (PDT)) it happened eryer wrote in :

I once made a scope with an old BW CRT. Verly low bandwidth, magnetic deflection.

Just get rid of it FGS and use your time and efforts for something else that'll be of some use to you.

Depends on where you live. Check into your E-waste disposal options. Around here, GoodWill will take old TV-s for free. Recycling depots charge to take a TV off your hands. Not sure whether you can get the average recycler to take a bare CRT at all. The stuff you scavenge out of it might be worth less than it costs you to dispose of the rest.

If you can give it away, you save the gas cost to take it to recycle.

I wanted a flyback to build a HV supply. Cost of dealing with a free junker TV to get one exceeded the value of the project.

On a sunny day (Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:03:52 -0700) it happened mike wrote in :

ll.

In California, *if* you stick one in your trash and it's found, something like over $500 fine for dumping hazardous material [phosphor] Instead I took 5 dead monitors to the 'reclaimers' and got $5 each, not bad. They were after the glass.

Target practice.

eryer wrote in news:edcde948-e58d-4529-bf9a- snipped-for-privacy@p27g2000vbl.googlegroups.com:

Build an audioscope out of it? Connect a stereo audioamp to the deflection coils? For that you need a littlle circuit to stop burnin on the screen, although with an old tv that wont matter maybe.

Back when I was a stripling building radios out of old TVs, I used to put the picture tubes in plastic garbage cans and shoot them with my slingshot. Great fun, even better than Drano bombs.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Use the flyback transformer to make a jacobs ladder, blow things up, generally destroy stuff, and perhaps even kill yerself. Sounds like big fun. I'm certainly gonna give it a go! ;)

nb

Have CRT aquariums been overdone?

You should have dropped one off a cliff. :)

I saw guy lose his big toe to a piece of broken glass buried in the sand. Someone should drop you off a cliff.

nb

How did it cut him if it was buried?

That cliff was over a rural landfill that had been used for over 100 years. I watched that '50s Monochrome Crosley CRT hit the neck on rocks at least a half dozen times. Then it landed on the faceplate, after a

No one but idiots you would walk in a place like that, barefoot or otherwise.

Yer not the brightest bulb in the string, are you.

nb

That's exactly what the loser of the argument would say.

Make sure to give good tips to the disposal guys

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That's exactly what the loser of the argument would say.