In 2000, at around the point when most well off people were transitioning to flat panel TVs, I inherited a large 32" CRT from a friend of mine. They were upgrading and wanted to get rid of their old CRT.
I said I’d take it and use it for my treadmill so I could watch TV while I walked.
The thing weighed 100lbs!!! I had to build a reinforced stand to lift it up in the air and I nearly killed myself hoisting it up and having it nearly fall on me multiple times! And the thing took up so much room … I think it occupied almost the same amount of floor space as the treadmill.
The dangerous thing about these things is that they were big and lopsided … it’s like lifting a huge kettle ball but all the weight of the ball is only on one side and the rest of it is empty air. It was really easy to just drop the thing because you lost balance with it. Or even worse, throw your back and some muscle because you were trying to save it from falling over while you held it.
I had a 32" and it had a flat screen meaning the glass wasn’t curved but it wasn’t thin. It was also higher res than 480p, it was a transitional model before flat screens rolled out. It weighed 160lbs! I was moving it carrying it by myself and had to rest it on my thighs for a few seconds. They were bruised for a week.
My dad an en excellent 24" Panasonic he got a few years agter he died. We moved it across the Midwest 6 times from 95-2010 until we finally replaced it with a 42" led after moving to Kansas City. So my brother and i got to take it downstairs and play Halo Reach and Black Ops on it. They might have been heavy and a bitch to move, but they were awesome TV’s that could take a beating.
Until one day, you turn it on, and without warning, you are presented with half a screen, or a single white line across the middle. Sound is optional.
I used to put all my change in a big jar, which was reserved for my next TV. When my current one crapped out, I’d listen to music while I rolled up my change, and go buy a new one somewhere. If I happened to be flush, maybe I’d add a bit more and get the next size up.
lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.
In 2000, at around the point when most well off people were transitioning to flat panel TVs, I inherited a large 32" CRT from a friend of mine. They were upgrading and wanted to get rid of their old CRT.
I said I’d take it and use it for my treadmill so I could watch TV while I walked.
The thing weighed 100lbs!!! I had to build a reinforced stand to lift it up in the air and I nearly killed myself hoisting it up and having it nearly fall on me multiple times! And the thing took up so much room … I think it occupied almost the same amount of floor space as the treadmill.
The dangerous thing about these things is that they were big and lopsided … it’s like lifting a huge kettle ball but all the weight of the ball is only on one side and the rest of it is empty air. It was really easy to just drop the thing because you lost balance with it. Or even worse, throw your back and some muscle because you were trying to save it from falling over while you held it.
I had a 32" and it had a flat screen meaning the glass wasn’t curved but it wasn’t thin. It was also higher res than 480p, it was a transitional model before flat screens rolled out. It weighed 160lbs! I was moving it carrying it by myself and had to rest it on my thighs for a few seconds. They were bruised for a week.
Flat CRTs were probably even heavier than curved ones because the glass has to be thicker to hold vacuum with a less structurally-efficient shape.
My dad an en excellent 24" Panasonic he got a few years agter he died. We moved it across the Midwest 6 times from 95-2010 until we finally replaced it with a 42" led after moving to Kansas City. So my brother and i got to take it downstairs and play Halo Reach and Black Ops on it. They might have been heavy and a bitch to move, but they were awesome TV’s that could take a beating.
Until one day, you turn it on, and without warning, you are presented with half a screen, or a single white line across the middle. Sound is optional.
I used to put all my change in a big jar, which was reserved for my next TV. When my current one crapped out, I’d listen to music while I rolled up my change, and go buy a new one somewhere. If I happened to be flush, maybe I’d add a bit more and get the next size up.
That was the thing with these old heavy CRTs … they could take a beating … they could also give a beating.
have you really used a CRT if you haven’t learned how to smack it back into working?
lol … I had a few family members with that mentality … you gave it a few gentle smacks to try to coax it to work and often it did work … but when it didn’t, they’d hit it harder, then harder, then harder until the screen just turned into horizontal or diagonal static which usually meant the thing was destroyed.
Sounds like they didn’t know how to hit it right to me
Good ol percussion maintenance