[TechAssist] Re: When do TVs implode?

  • From: "Vilhelm Boor" <villyboor@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:16:30 0000

Villy Boor
 Boorelec Durban
 Many years ago was involved with tracking down the answer to a whole series of 
TV doing just that. Turned out it was sabotage. Guy fitting the yoke put a 
small scratch with a ring he wore at the point where the neck flairs out to the 
back of the tube. These turned into timebombs. He spent some time after that 
making large rocks smaller. 
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:42:30  
 Stefaan Van Slycken wrote:
>Hi group...
>recently there was a fire in a retirement home around here, probably due to a 
>TV implosion (that's what they said in the news).  So every now and then i get 
>asked "Why / When do TVs implode?" - i thought that could only happen if they 
>fell over and the picture tube broke... can it happen "spontaneously"?
>
>Happy Holidays...
>Stefaan Van Slycken
>Van Slycken Elektro - Waasmunster, Belgium
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