OT Pickeys take CRT TVs

[ARW]

What value do they have as scrap?

The plastic must have no value as they smashed that off and left it behind before taking the rest of it away and then they smashed the glass screen halfway down the street.

[DerbyBorn]

"ARW" wrote in news:la41cu$h7h$ [e-mail]:

Why do it properly when you can just leave them to the pikey's.

[Andrew Gabriel]

which reminds me, I seem to have slowly built up a pile at home of CRT based TVs and computer monitors which were still working when last used, but are no longer needed. Lack of analogue transmission was the end of the TVs. I must schedule a trip to the tip.

[DerbyBorn]

"ARW" wrote in news:la41cu$h7h$ [e-mail]:

Just a thought - a colour CRT is an engineering marvel. When you think how it works, it is amazing that TVs and monitors were ever in reach of the normal buyer. A tribute to Manufacturing Technology.

[Tim Streater]

Perhaps no scrap value but fun for all the family as they leave a trail of detritus down the street.

[Graham.]

I thought that first clip WAS the pikeys. Why didn't they destroy the vacuum first?

[Piers]

Took an old CRT monitor (that had been sitting in a shed since we moved in 6 years ago) to the tip, sorry recycling centre, recently. They had a big shipping container to put CRTs in - seemed to be lots of old CRT castoffs, but looking in pretty good nick, ready to go to somewhere to be dismantled.

[Adrian C]

There's shiny copper in them Field windings?

[Jim K]

mmmm cue images of "african" shanty shitholes around tips with bonfires belching toxic smoke and poor feckers scrabbling around collecting the resulting droplets of gold & other metals to continue their miserable subsistence lives .... er etc etc

Happy New Year

Jim K

[Tony Bryer]

I'm old enough to remember the mid-1960s and first colour TVs - two men to lift and a morning to install and set up. Cost the same as a Mini, common wisdom was that they were a nice idea but ordinary people would never be able to afford them. Which was true then and why the rental companies did such good business (renting was actually a good idea as in those days having a tame repairman on call was somewhat necessary).

[DerbyBorn]

Tony Bryer wrote in news: [e-mail]:

My first colour tv had 18 knobs on a hinge out Convergence Set Up Panel. The earth's magnetic field could influence the convergence so it needed adjusting if you moved the set. As components aged then convergence would shift.

[Andrew Gabriel]

First one I saw was in 1968 at a great aunt's house in Ilford. We sat and watched several programs before there was one which was broadcast in colour. She had made us an enormous pile of rainbow sandwiches, and we were starting to think that was the nearest to colour we were going to see!

[Farmer Giles]

I was a TV service technician in those days, a great job at the time but those early colour TVs - Thorn 2000s, Baird 700s, etc - were absolute brutes - dual-standard hybrids, except for the Thorn 2000 which was the world's first solid-state colour TV. However, it wasn't usually the convergence that needed readjusting if you moved the set, but the 'purity'. Happy days.

[Brian Gaff]

We used to put a thick towel over the neck of the tube and hit it hard with a brick.

In the old days when crts were useful, they used to take them and regun the tubes of course and then resell them. as v for value. Copper wire inside and no doubt other metals as well. Brian

[Lobster]

On 02 Jan 2014, [e-mail] (Andrew Gabriel) grunted in news:la4q20$6mi$ [e-mail]:

My first was around that time; courtesy of a beloved elderly aunt too, who lived up the road. I had a regular appointment with her one night a week, when I would go round to watch "Star Trek" and "The World About Us" with her - now you mention it, IIRC there weren't that many colour programmes then, and those were two on back to back.

[John Rumm]

I remember our first colour (and first non rental) TV being delivered and installed in the 70's some time.

After the installation of the new UHF aerial, it was turned on for the first time to reveal the closing credits of Hawaii Five O. I was amazed to learn that the out riggers on the boat they were paddling were red, and the ocean a vivid dark blue, but even more impressively, everything seemed to be a "real" colour. Up to that point, everyone else's colour TV I had seen, seemed to be adjusted to have the colour turned up to 11 so that people were bright orange!

[Jim K]

As my granny used to say - they look healthier with a sun tan...

Jim K

[Tim Streater]

Little annoys me more than going to someone's house and seeing the colour turned up full. In the CRT days there'd also be a good chance that the registration was off or that the telly suffered from very bad pin-cushion or barrel distortion.

I remember visiting my BiL, a long time ago, and he was singing the praises of his Sony which was apparently a Which best buy. Of course he'd not looked at it in any store and hadn't noticed the awful mis- registration of the colour in the top-left quarter of the screen, which was immediately apparent when you looked at Teletext.

[Andrew Gabriel]

I used to cut the pinch seal in the middle of the valve base with a pair of pliers, whilst facing the other way, just in case.

[spuorgelgoog]

That's still the case with STV (Scottish) presenters :-)

Owain