Brings back a memory or two, aligning a FOCRT on a Honeywell Visicorder
that had been dropped, I had repositioned the tube. I didn't have a
mirror to watch when I focused the tube so I laid down on the workbench
and reached across the chassis to adjust the beam gain and focus.
Picture this, the workbench had a shelf that my head was under, it was a
maple benchtop and shelf. I brushed the hv lead as I was adjusting,
they guys watching said I made 3 cycles after they stopped laughing.
My arm hurt for a week.
pat
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Ed Popielarski wrote:
> Yes, James. I learned first-hand how much that hurts.
>
> This was back in the late '70's (ears still quite wet) when I had
> taken a job debugging arcade games in the NY Metro area. I had just
> finished repairing 5 square color CRT displays and set them up in a
> row from a common composite video source to align the guns. What I
> didn't notice was one of the 5 tubes was rotated 90 degrees, so the
> first few had the 2nd anode below the CRT, but the one "oddball" had
> it positioned right where my arm could make contact while reaching
> over to adjust the horiz. & vert. size pots on the rear of the
> chassis. I thought someone hit me with a door (huh?) and found myself
> on the floor salivating like a mad dog. Apparently, the dielectric
> strength of the rubber cup isn't high enough for this maneuver. OUCH!
> Never did that again! (remember the electric fence analog earlier!)
>
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> When I used to work for Toshiba at the TV plant in Plymouth we were
> meant to break the tube necks before disposing of CRTs but we thought
> it was more fun to put them in the crusher unbroken and watch the old
> crusher shudder. We once had a high-end special 44 inch tube. We
> wheeled it out and very carefully lifted it up to place it gently face
> down in the crusher on its own, pushed the green button and hurried
> away. There was a low thumping bang and the whole cage around the
> crusher rattled. Crushing flat panels was not as exciting.
>
> We used two large screw drivers to discharge the tube before working
> on a set. Holding both screw drivers like sheers so they touched each
> other, we touched one screw driver on the ground side of the tube and
> wriggled the other under the anode cap. I had a few 35 kV shocks
> though when I forgot to only hold the screwdriver by the handle
> (doh!). Fortunately I remembered to hold them correctly the one time
> when I tried to discharge a tube where the TV was still switched on -
> although we used 1:1 isolation transformers I suspect that it still
> could have been very painful.
>
> James
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