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Originally Posted by domfjbrown
On more-modern square(ish) CRTs from the 70s on, the rimband certainly seems to work if you're belting a breezeblock or hammer through the screen (mis-spent youth speaking here!) - all the glass'd stay inside the case of the TV, and the shattered remains of the shadowmask/rimband'd be in the case too:
OK, so it's a b&w portable, and the glass is MORE intact than on the 25inch colour tellies we bust at school, but you get the idea. My nefarious mate Rob did that portable, and here he is again with my old monitor:
Obviously the implosion protection isn't infallible:
Not big, not clever, but THAT breaking glass really IS an interesting sound... At least all the tellies that died at our hands were junker/broken modern plastic POSs...
I think the term "bonk bonk bonk BONNNNGGGGGSKLAASSSSH!" would ring a bell. Not funny! |
Here is another picture of the advantages of rimbands on CRT's
The CRT was out of my Grundig TV & I replaced it with another one as this one was crook, So it was decided to dump the old one at the dump.
For good mesure the thing was dropped on it's neck & here is the end result, Glass everywhere as the thing colapsed on itself & I made one hell of a bang in the process.