[::maroma::]

I got an old 21" Apple CRT that is dead, and was thinking of removing the guts and making a nice little cat bed for my cat. She loved to lay on top of it when it worked (and was warm) so I was hoping she'd like to lay inside it too.

Anyone done anything like this before? I hear its a pretty dangerous thing to disassemble a CRT monitor, so I don't want to just go do it without getting some pointers.

Post pics if you got em!

Here's a pic of one I found out there on the internets:



I'm planning on mine looking a bit more finished, and I have the cool looking Graphite CRT monitor shell, so it won't look that fugly.

[turtle777]

That's one MEAN looking cat

Wouldn't want to cross its path...

-t

[nredman]

that is the stupidest **** i have ever seen

[besson3c]

I think it would be cool to put another monitor in that monitor.

[DeathToWindows]

The real danger with a CRT is safing it... they carry an absolute shitload of charge.

hey, if kitty like it, who am I to object?

[vmarks]

if you've left the monitor unplugged for a few days and jog the power switch with the power unplugged, you'll bring the voltages down to zero pretty quickly rendering it safe.

the other way is to carefully remove the back cover, get a good non conductive wooden screwdriver, clip lead the metal shaft of the screwdriver to ground, and slip it under the suction cup on the tube until you touch contact with the metal conductor under the suction cup.

Once you've done that it's pretty safe since the power that was still in it has been routed to ground.


Don't kill yourself.

[brokecollegestudentF04]

My boyfriends puppy in an indigo iMac shell. had a blown analog board.. the pup loved it

[red rocket]

Good idea.