On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'll be blunt to be brief. A heatgun on a messy, gooey, HOT, CRT is too dangerous and takes too long, in my opinion. I won't do it. Ian and others may do such things. "There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, but there aren't many old, bold pilots."
I am not endorsing the heat gun method. I did my one cold, by using a wire as a "saw" to cut through the PVA. I have heard that using a nichrome wire cuts through it like butter but that's not what I did. It took time and it left a fair mess to clean up with plastic scrapers and alcohol. I was only doing one so I wasn't trying to optimize the process. I was working slow and careful and it all came out fine. It comes down to time/effort vs value of return. I would almost certainly choose another approach if I had a gaylord of terminals to process. -ethan