Funny how you notice watching the video, right after the set was turned off, it shows a dark round spot in the middle of the tube, like it went to air, and then a few clips later it's not there, but there again when he starts slicing the cabinet, looks like they damaged the tube before slicing the set, and clips were probably not in order..

He wasted money and something that's apart of history.. He should have used some CRT TV from the 90's or maybe more recent.. While I was watching the clip, i was thinking to myself, he should go over there and slice that flat screen plasma TV, and sure enough he did.. Should have left it on...

Clips never are in order, that's called "Editing." They thought of further comments after breaking the pip on the tube. Note that he connector had been removed before they started slicing.

What a waste! I would give my eye teeth to find something like that here...and it was working too..dumb ass idiots... I would have bashed that flat panel set and then given that host a bash too! GRRRR:no:

NO !!! If you cut one of the Kardashians half in two, you run the risk that she/it might just grow into TWO Kims, Khloes, or whatever...Similar to what happens if you break off a leaf of certain plants...

Or when you cut a Worm in two!

Sad that those sets aren't worth more; I think that crt is a 21YP4 or 21ZP4. Not extremely rare but worth saving. I think a color set from the 80s/90s would have more informative and, to most viewer, just as "old" in their mind.

Anyone suppose they chose to cut apart a B&W set because of what could happen when the blade teeth caught the invar shadow mask?

Still agree that cutting apart that TV was a dumb thing to do.

Hell, you can see it when they take a chainsaw to the sony flatscreen set (seriously, WTF?). The show is for people who like destruction, not people who are interested in how things work.

The british show "Secret Life of Machines" showed a rectangular color CRT cut in half. They must've used a diamond blade, because the cut was real clean.

either that or they have a good laser cutter setup...

No most ppl think this new FLAT SCREEN garbage is better :(

If people are just looking for destruction, they would watch Letterman toss things from high buildings or run over them with a asphalt roller. This show spent a lot more time talking about how things worked than showing the destruction.

Clearly, it was a little of both, since there are better ways to get a flat screen TV apart for inspection than using a chain saw.

I always wondered how they made those "models"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVIa...EF02CFDA6F28A9

FWIW seeing that show when I was young really got me interested in how things work. Many fond memories.

I'm an admitted novice on much of TV technology ... what is the "invar shadow mask"? This piques my curiousity:-)

Thanks

Carl

A shadow mask is a metal sheet that is perforated in the same or a similar pattern to the phosphor dot pattern and spaced somewhere arround an inch back from the phosphors such that it helps keep the three color electron beams from strikeing the wrong color phosphor dots in color CRTs. When I was a kid a destroyed all but the screen of a delta gun rectangular tube so my friends and I could see our selves on the screen before the garbage man got the set. That was the best look I ever had at the inside of a delta gun tube.

If you really want to see the inside of a delta gun tube I have a non-rebuildable one (the screen cracked during a cateract removal attempt) that I've been wanting to get good enough cuting equipment to cut-away parts so it can be made into a display of what really is inside of a color CRT. I probably will never have access or the budget for the proper equipment to do such, but would gladly donate it to the ETF if they would agree to do such and make it into a display...

Tom C.