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Here's what it looked like at the start. |
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Time to disconnect the tube from the board.. |
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The steps up to this point are very similar to the other sets (the ones that still had any electronics left in them, I mean). |
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Here I scored a line with the Dremel. As you can see, I hadn't broken the back off of it yet, but I didn't want to try until the scoring was in place. I feared if I smashed it first (as I had with the other tv sets), any cracks could spread the short distance to the front of the screen. Even as I was scoring it, cracks were forming from the pressure (made uneven by the scoring process itself). It was like walking on a thinly-frozen pond. |
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Wrapped in a towel and old blanket to avoid any stray glass. Only the back came off, surprisingly. I worried it would look like the remains of a lightbulb. |
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One more tap, and the whole thing separated beautifully. |
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I used the drill to cut through the back for an AC cord. The original plan was to put a strobe inside, but ultimately I didn't go that route (The strobe ended up in one of the larger sets). |
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Instead I used another "pumpkin light" with a glass jewel on top of it as a diffuser. |
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It could use something on the screen, but this works pretty well even with the crystal skull from the '00s tv trying to steal its thunder. |
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