What to do with dead monitors

[teddymills]

I have always wanted to "SCTV" a computer/monitor thats been psng me off.



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From: "Keith Mastin" <kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org>
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Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: What to do with dead monitors


>
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> >> Yup.  The CRT is something like 30% lead by weight on average and an
> >> average monitor is 80% CRT by weight...  Beyond that, the lead is
> >> still useful if separated, as is the glass...
> >
> > Unless CRT design has changed since the last time I looked, you don't
> > get the lead separate from the glass, because the lead is *in* the
> > glass.  It's lead glass -- glass with a high lead-oxide content.
>
> The design hasn't changed. I have a place in Hamilton that comes and picks
> up old systems for recycling. They send the monitors out to Noronada in
> Quebec to dispose of in the slag at the smelter. according to them,
> there's no other safe way of disposing of them. Its the lead and the
> phosphors they're concerned about.
>
>
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> Keith Mastin
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