I've just broken my CRT monitor, now I'm worried...

Have any of your limbs dropped off yet?

Kiss your ass goodbye. 24 hours to live at maximum, no known cure.

;-)

No, not really. No problem, unless you insist to try again, and places your hand inside the broken glass tube while you power up.

No.

Heh, thanks for the reassurance. Out of curiosity - what is the broken part that I described - the electron gun?

The metal parts you probably saw is the electron gun, the whole glass unit is the picture tube.

Well my foot hurts a bit. I'm guessing that's from when I dropped the monitor on it.

In that case all you have to fear is the psychotic paranoid environmentalists who've made it fashionable to fear everything.

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:59:49 -0800, mwpmorris Has Frothed:

Find a dark room and see if you glow.

mwpmorris wrote: > Well my foot hurts a bit. I'm guessing that's from when I dropped the > monitor on it.

Nah. the pain is from when the vacuum fell out on your foot.

GG

No it didn't - vacuum floats because its lighter than air.

No, you should wash your hands after handling leaded glass but to generate xrays you need extremely high voltage and a hard vacuum, in short, it ain't gonna happen with a modern monitor, especially not a broken one. The Xray warnings are a holdover from the days of vacuum tube rectifiers.

No thats a pain in your wallet ! The insurance Co should take care of that !

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not likely to be any health risks from powering it up in that state. now get on your local freecycle and get another monitor! sure you could give one a good (new) home.

-B

Hi!

Other than maybe some trace amounts of ozone that might have generated by the arcing...no.

If you think you came into contact with any broken glass, the best thing to do would be to wash your hands. That should take care of most anything that would come out of a monitor.

I'm surprised that the monitor broke like that. It seems the most common damage from a drop is a dislodged shadow mask, which usually messes up the colors on the screen. As an aside, I once lost ahold of an IBM 8513 and it fell down a flight of stairs. It made an awful racket going down the stairs, but was fine apart from some scuffing when I picked it up and checked it out. I can only guess that the small tube size (12") might have been what saved the shadow mask in that monitor from popping loose or distorting.

William

Only in the Northern Hemishere.

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i think it depends on how it falls,from which height and what it lands on. I dropped a 14" monitor on one front corner onto a concrrete floor from waist height last year, and the tube neck cracked as the yoke's weight may have been too much.... made a pretty fire work display round the tube neck area for about 5 minutes when connected up ;-)

-B.

No. You're fine.

It's no big loss either because there are loads of used monitors running around for 5 dollars or less.

After the AT I bought used with a monitor, the next and better one was one I found in the woods lying in the snow. The uppper corner was broken and it may have been thrown from a car on the road nearby, or at least pushed down the little hill. I let it dry for 3 or 4 days and it lasted for 6 years or more. I wanted to know the specs, before there was much of a web, and I called NEC and eventually I told her that I found the monitor in the woods, and she didn't mind at all. She said they still support their products.

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I'm currently using a sony e-200 trinitron found tossed in a skip and full of water. drained, dried and cleaned her out, changed some caps and works like a champ 7 months later.

-B