On that website, "we are your obsolescence solution" sounds perhaps a little creepier than they intended? ;-)I wonder how much it would cost to have brand new CRTs made...
https://www.thomaselectronics.com/faq/
Done this myself, though not the dramatic sparks bit! The crunch and the hiss, just long enough to consider your error. Really bloody annoying, isn't it. It's a vacuum in there so what you're hearing at the crucial embarrassing moment is the air rushing in rather than gas rushing out (not that this makes any functional difference at this point, but if one can't be mildly pedantic on the Internet where can one?).Unfortunately I knocked the yoke and gas escaped
Haha, I don't think i could handle all the name calling/critism/abuse I'd get in the comments. Youtube is not a kind place.That’s really unfortunate. I by no means wish to belittle your plight, but man, it’s too bad you didn’t have a video of that! I don’t think anybody has a video of a vintage Mac CRT doing that on YouTube!
Should I attempt to clean the coil or just leave it?
Been there, done that Every collector's bound to do it at some point, sadly.Done this myself, though not the dramatic sparks bit! The crunch and the hiss, just long enough to consider your error. Really bloody annoying, isn't it. It's a vacuum in there so what you're hearing at the crucial embarrassing moment is the air rushing in rather than gas rushing out (not that this makes any functional difference at this point, but if one can't be mildly pedantic on the Internet where can one?).
Dumb question incoming: but what would that do? I can understand cutting off the rest of the CRT and leaving the face and placing and LCD behind that, but would placing a small LCD at the neck "magnify" it or something? Sounds pretty risky and dangerous, too, with all of that glass.I'm still keeping my busted CRT around, though – one day I'll find someone with an angle grinder to cut off the neck, so I can stick an LCD screen behind it.
You know you can swap out the yokes right? The tube itself is identical.And I've just realised the classic has a revision B CRT - so it's useless for my needs.
Back to square one I guess.