On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:02:55 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

On 8/14/2010 11:36 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"Mike Marlow" wrote

32" flat screen CRT? Yeah they are that heavy. That's a *lot* of
glass and often MDF casing. Our 1982 vintage 25" RCA table top was
100 lbs.

Damn - I was stronger than I realize back then, I guess. I just put up
a 32" flat screen in our bedroom - using a wall mount. I know that one
is well under 100 lbs. I hung a mount that would carry 100 lbs, but
only because I wanted the movements it was capable of. It's quite over
capacity for the TV hanging from it.


An LED or LCD flat screen is about 30 pounds. Much different than the
CRT he has.

I think people are confused by his use of "flat screen" and are assuming
he's talking about an LCD or plasma instead of the kind of CRTs with
flat faces that Zenith developed about 30 years back.

Right. The "flat-screen" CRTs used a lot more glass than the normal
curved-face TV. The inside surface of both is necessarily spherical. To
flatten it out the glass has to be made thicker. Glass is heavy. So is the
MDF the cases were often made out of.

"Flat-screen" "Flat-panel"

Or maybe they're just kids who have never seen a CRT.

;-)

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