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Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the problem is you can't exactly learn to artisanally blow cathode ray tubes in your garage. Damn things are industrial by definition. You need someone to ramp up (or maintain, as someone above mentions) a big industrial facility to be able to reliably make an electron gun attached to an oversized vacuum tube that wants nothing more than to implode and throw shards of glass inside somebody's eyeballs.