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Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles
If i was in the same state of you, i'd buy it off of ya...i <3 Windows 3.1
But yeah dont trash it...thats bad bad bad.
if your getting rid of the monitor in the trash....take off the power cable and there should be 3 pins...you need to bend the ground one, this prevents it from doing something what i cant remember...but thats what they told me.
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CRT moniters are extreamly dangerous, in fact they can easily kill you. I've never heard of bending the pin, but it makes a sort of sense. There is a part in your moniter called a flyback transformer which goes to a anode that is under a rubber suction cupish thing. It puts out 25,000 volts!, and older moniters keep their charge a long time. I think computer moniters are classified as a hazardous material, because of something in therm, can't remember what. The Computer itself is usually pretty benign, lead based solder is probably the worst part (depends how old it is). Old laptops, though, are very dangerous, we actually have one that has something leaking out of it, probably the Ni-Cad
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