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[Curt Palme]

so I had my trusty underling that's been working with me for 10+ years take 16 tubes out of their 1209s housings while I was gone. He's done this lots of times, as have I. The tubes came in the 90 degree 919 housings, so they were useless to me as is.

So he sends me an email saying' I can't finish the tubes, LOL', with the gnarliest of pictures attached of a gaping wound.

Now, he and I are always messing with each other, but somehow my guess is that this one isn't a joke.

Sure enough, his g/f posts that they are at Langley Memorial, which luckily is across the street from my house.

The Olfa knife snapped, and went deeeeeep into his left hand. he nailed himself right at the base of the thumb on the outside of the hand. 2 hours later, 7 stitches inside and 7 outside.

Craig, he paid dearly for your tubes!

Beware, I did something similar to my pinkie about 3 years ago. Cut through muscle, no stitches needed, but I couldn't curl up my finger for about 5 months. CRT work is dangerous stuff!

[Curt Palme]

so I had my trusty underling that's been working with me for 10+ years take 16 tubes out of their 1209s housings while I was gone. He's done this lots of times, as have I. The tubes came in the 90 degree 919 housings, so they were useless to me as is.

So he sends me an email saying' I can't finish the tubes, LOL', with the gnarliest of pictures attached of a gaping wound.

Now, he and I are always messing with each other, but somehow my guess is that this one isn't a joke.

Sure enough, his g/f posts that they are at Langley Memorial, which luckily is across the street from my house.

The Olfa knife snapped, and went deeeeeep into his left hand. he nailed himself right at the base of the thumb on the outside of the hand. 2 hours later, 7 stitches inside and 7 outside.

Craig, he paid dearly for your tubes!

Beware, I did something similar to my pinkie about 3 years ago. Cut through muscle, no stitches needed, but I couldn't curl up my finger for about 5 months. CRT work is dangerous stuff!

[the big E]

Ouch curt that made me cringe and brings back the time I tried to replace the glass on the Ecp tube(not fun)

[Tim in Phoenix]

Ouch

There goes his golf career..............

[Francisco]

Oh yeah, sometimes the silicone has dried out that it is nearly immpossible to cut. Last time I did it 4 knifes breaked and I managed to cut myself in the knee, luckily small cut. Nothing serious.

[the big E]

[CIR Engineering]

[digitalayon]

Didn't your scoutmasters teach you guys anything? But....I know how it feels. I just had my gallbladder removed on an emergency 3:00 AM run a few weeks ago. Was there 2 weeks recovering since it ruptured and I almost died. So...take healing for all that it is worth. In case you guys were wondering why I dropped off the face of the earth.....yeah this was why. Because I almost did drop for good.

[Nashou66]

[ecrabb]

Judas Priest, that sounded like it was damn-near life-changing.

First of all, why the hell are you guys using Olfa knives? Those snap-blades are for cutting light sh*t like matte-board and PAPER fer chrissakes! There are way better utility knives that use solid blade, with a much more solid grip. X-Acto makes a very nice, fat, hand-fitting model that uses standard flippable utility knife blades.

Second, isn't there some better way than using a manual knife and a bunch of pressure, ready to take a digit off in an instant? Could you get a tiny Dremel tip in there? Either a wheel, or if the angle isn't that good, how about a 1/16" (1.6mm) grout bit?

Seems like one of those projects where there should be a better way that would be faster and safer.

SC

[CIR Engineering]

I use a sharp paring knife for Barco tubes. It's strong and has better grip and it won't break off.

Steve, there really isn't a better way on Barco housings. There is hardly enough room to fit a knife in let alone a bit of any kind. If you want the tubes and / or housing to be undamaged when you disassemble than I think power tools are out for these. Usually Barco applied the silicone gingerly so the operation is almost always pretty easy.

Also, the Barco housing is not very thick. Because of this, when I insert the paring knife the housing actually bends (stretches) around the knife. That's how tight it is.

Now if you have 16 sets of tubes in front of you I think fatigue may be a factor. I wouldn't want to do more than three tubes a day. It doesn't take too long (maybe an hour and a half for all three at most), but you hands and concentration get tired.

craigr

[CIR Engineering]

[CIR Engineering]

[stefuel]

Take all the important stuff off and just soak them in gasoline. Let them soak long enough and no cutting required. The glue will turn to snot and you can just push them out.

[Nashou66]

[the big E]

[CIR Engineering]

I regularly remove tubes from housings... I might suggest that regularly having many vats of gasoline and tubes in a location may be more dangerous than just cutting them out. I don't want to blow up or burn down myself or my warehouse. Also, sometimes you need it done now, not a week or two from now.

I use turpentine for Marquee and NEC tubes sometimes when I have time to spare, but it's really not that hard to cut a Barco tube out of a housing. I've done it 100 times without any injury. It takes about 4 minutes to cut a tube out of a G90 housing.

craigr

[AnalogRocks]

[AnalogRocks]

[CasetheCorvetteman]

Get out the 4" grinder with the 1mm cutoff wheel and be careful you dont take off a leg

Just remember Curt, if you cant see the bone, there is nothing sticky tape cant fix

[CIR Engineering]

[Nashou66]