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From: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle
Message-ID: <7839@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 03:46:49 GMT
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|Fluorescent tubes :  Best if thrown like a javelin. Very loud if stood
|		     upright and allowed to fall on hard surface.

CRTs: satisfactory results can be achieved by placing these on a hard
surface, flat side up, and dropping forged metal objects on them from
heights exceeding ten meters (lower heights result in poor performance
-- nothing but a gradual cracking).
-- 
Richard J. Reiner              rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca
BITNET: rreiner@yorkvm1.bitnet (also rreiner@vm1.yorku.ca)