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Gives a new meaning to TV Dinner...

I had my earphones on and jumped at 0:36 :O

I would say the CRT had a shattering experience. It was busting up without jokes.

The CRT won't move....it has a broken neck. A smashing video. The tube is beside itself and needs to pull itself together. A person who looks inside a CRT should ask what is the phosphor?

randomvideowatcher 4 months ago

what about a egg in the microwave XD

smurfi016 5 months ago

omfg!!!!!!! pease check cable REED GREEN BLU XD

boris3650 9 months ago

Mmm, barium.

TeravoltOrg 1 year ago

cool!, I remember this one :D

the RPTV tubes I have do not have that implosion protection band on them either :D

Aussie50 1 year ago

Special FX got NOTHING on this!

CarlCampbell 1 year ago

i had one blow in my house while tv was plugged in

rfafsfsdfasdfsffsdfa 1 year ago

cool!

Quinnamania 1 year ago

Brilliant.

wisteela 2 years ago

it poped like that cause the bulb tube heated up and lost its negative vacume and the tube is not designed to take positive pressures(like a air cylinder).same thing happens to light bulbs in a microwave

jpawhees 2 years ago

it looks like the flux capacitor at the end of back to the future part 3

bunnygirl9043 2 years ago

Funny stuff. THIS is why they put warning labels on everything, cuz ya just never know what kinda goofy stuff people will think up.

maxedwell 2 years ago

Advertising the name of the microwave at 1:12

lol

WindowsAndMacintosh 2 years ago

OH SHIT!. that was cool

alphaman1101 2 years ago

Was the tube already dead when it was microwaved?

djo9c1 2 years ago

There`s a caption missing: Kids, you should definitely TRY this at home!

cyberwaste83 2 years ago

UUUUUOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!! COOL!!!! hauhauahuahauahuahauhauhau

CONTADORVIDEOS 2 years ago

Best EVER!

mars478maximus 2 years ago

cool

chocolate45689 3 years ago

Awesome. Just awesome.

the720k 3 years ago

yeah that was amazing

PhilliR08 3 years ago

You really need to take up a more constructive hobby - like drinking.

IamPete 3 years ago

That was one of the better death by microwave videos I've seen. Funny how I expected to hear a kids voice at the end, but it was an older chap!

cyclissmo 3 years ago

That was weird, cool and dangerous!

UploadVideos247 3 years ago

Thats cool someone out there as mad as me., never thought about sticking one of my $700 projector CRT's in the microwave, but when one gets bad tube burn there it will head, by the way just to set the record the phosphor will not light up with microwave energy as it needs UV light to make it illuminate hence why when the tube implodes and the arc starts crawling over tube face it is giving off UV light making phosphor light up.

mrcrtking 3 years ago

$700....why the hell didnt the one i sold on ebay go for more than a lousy $35 ....JFC...

HighVoltageFag 2 years ago

That ruled!

CaptainSiberia 3 years ago

Awesome! Very orginal one to do. Love it.

wisteela 3 years ago

No mercury in CRTs except some very old submarine and airport display units. Wikipedia has a good article on the phosphors used in CRTs, cadmium was used for yellows a long time ago (earliest color TVs). In general TVs are more dangerous when working than they are in the microwave.

retroworks1 3 years ago

There is no mercury in CRT's.

The glass has lead in it, it isn't going to escape unless you plan on melting glass.

Tubes that contain mercury are usually used in high powered transmitting equipment, half wave power supplies using thyratrons contain mercury.

BernardFeltzer 3 years ago

I find it odd that the screen phosphor did not fry until the tube broke-was it the vacuum keeping it from happening?

VideyoJunkei 3 years ago

Maybe it was the tube's exterior.

Crashdance22 3 years ago

It was most likely the lead in the glass that was protecting it.

djo9c1 2 years ago

ok that tops out at one of the best youtube microwave vid. Awesome.

thefamilyk 3 years ago

EPIC

Chamtechie 3 years ago

dudes gonna have kids like that movie "wrong turn"

Mirthless79 3 years ago

I am not often harsh, but YOU ARE AN IDIOT. As soon as you opened that oven, you were exposed to toxic levels of mercury vapor. The force of implosion from many CRTs would've been more than enough to force the door open, as well. Not to mention all this is bad for the environment.

SpeakerPolice 3 years ago 2

THat was fucking awesome

chdk082289 3 years ago

What the heck?! =S

That CANNOT be good for the microwave. CRTs contain Mercury vapor, which is extremely toxic to carbon-based life. Other than that, that was an absolutely awesome explosion!! 5/5

SouthwesternEagle 3 years ago

HOLY CRAP!! THAT WAS SPECTACULAR! Imagine what could happen if they made huge microwaves so that you can fit full-size, 19" CRTs in there??? lol

also i had to re-type most of this message 10 times because as i was typing it, most of it would spontaneously get highlighted and as i kept typing, it would delete most of what i wrote. what the hell?????

wilkes85 3 years ago

Don't use this for oven for food anymore.

Can you say "lead poisoning?"

byteme10101 3 years ago

what inch is that?

slaterking1000 4 years ago

For those of you that are wondering, there is NO mercury in CRT tubes. It is simply a vacuum.

maclover201 4 years ago

in some there are a small amount actually...very old ones....

rgsgww 4 years ago

Actually, there is some lead in CRT tubes. Like 4-5 pounds of it in big ones.

maclover201 4 years ago

yea i know there is alot of lead...i was going to say that....thats why i dont want to smash them...

rgsgww 4 years ago

That is incorrect; mercury vapor is used in the phosphor on the face of the screen. I have been working with vacuum tubes for many years now, and CRTs have always been made like this.

SpeakerPolice 3 years ago