Re: Sony TV cabinet ---> Bookselves.

From: Rod Speed (rod_speed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:48:33 +1100

Tim Kett <tim6kettring@e-garfield.com> wrote in
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> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>> Tim Kett <tim6kettring@e-garfield.com> wrote
>>> NSM <nowrite@to.me> wrote
>>>> James Sweet <jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote
>>>>> NSM <nowrite@to.me> wrote

>>>>>> Certainly a better sound than an implosion!

>>>>> Been there, done that, didn't quite get enough
>>>>> height on a toss into the dumpster, my left ear
>>>>> was ringing for a good 30 minutes afterward.

>>>>> Still not sure how I walked away unscathed.
>>>>> I *always* "let out" the vacuum first now.

>>>> I recall a serviceman in Australia who was unable
>>>> to convince the homeowners to leave the room
>>>> while he changed the tube. After he tripped over
>>>> their dog and imploded the tube they were convinced.

>>> The glass from an imploded picture tube, can penetrate a wood
>>> cabinet. You can imagine what it could do to eyes, and body.
>>> Effectively, it is an explosion, with shards of glass as shrapnel.

>> More mindless pig ignorance. The screen
>> has very thick glass for a reason, stupid.

>> Basically because if the risk was anything like you
>> pig ignorantly claimed, plenty would end up injured
>> with stuff falling against the tube in normal use.

>> They dont, its just another silly pig ignorant urban myth.

> Oh, well maybe my electronics instructor lied,

Or just mindlessly respouted what he
had been told himself, just like you did.

Thats how most of those sorts of silly urban myths
originate, particularly in industrys with 'instructors'
who are hardly ever anything even remotely
resembling anything like rocket scientist material.

Try not to forget that immortal saying, "those who know
what they are doing, do it. Those who dont, 'teach' it"

> but I doubt it.

You have always been, and always will be, completely and
utterly irrelevant. What you might or might not doubt in spades.

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