degaussing coil/braided tinned wire

Thought I would share this. First time I ever saw it, but I'm sure some of u big timmers have before. Wondering how common it really is.
Just completed tearing apart a Quasar 21 inch tv that was made march 1985. As soon as I got the back off I could see the degaussing cable and it was about the size of a quarter. I figured it was alum because of how thick it was, and I was right, (dang). Usually there is a flat tinned piece of copper wire that connect 2 or 3 corners together, acting as a ground, (I GUESS, DON'T REALLY KNOW FOR SURE). Usually I cut the loops that go aound the corner, cut the ferrous spring off and throw wire in my clean #2 buckett.

But weight!?!?!? There is no wire. Instead it was three pieces of thin alum, about a 1/4 inch wide. The three pieces were bradded together. Connected to the corners of the tube by a small piece of steel wire wrapped around the corner bolts.
Usually there is a couple small insulated copper wires that connect the braided wire to the board. That was replaced with a couple pieces of thin alum pieces as well, except they were coated (insulated) with plastic coating that then connected to the. Plug which plugs into the board!?!?!?
As u can see it doesn't take much to amuse me!!!...I. would say this isn't nothing new for most of u, but thought I would sare it anyways.


Please feel free to post any kind of finds that anyone has and thinks it is out of the norm. It doesn't have to be dealing with crt degaussing coil or even electronics! THANX GUYS/GALS

That's actually surprising that they used aluminum instead of copper... anything under high voltage should use copper.
When I opened one of my CRTs (to clean it), it used entirely copper wiring. The tube was a high quality panasonic one.

I actually cut off a cord from a UPS recently, nice thick copper wire. Unfortunately, I don't know of any scrappers around here, so I always end up throwing nice copper heatsinks and wire in the garbage. It's a shame.

Originally Posted by Recycled89

That's actually surprising that they used aluminum instead of copper... anything under high voltage should use copper.

I first thought that the flat piece of alum might have been tinned copper or something. After I got it off I thought it was alum because of how light it was. Then I took my utility knife to it and confirmed it was alum.
I have tore open hundreds, prob thousands of tvs and monitors and have never saw anything like this. I like getting the older ones because they are usually copper degaussing cables instead of alum. Again this was a first for me.

And as a side note:
For anyone that is saving the bars from the electron gun for mtp glass, or has been keeping up with that, a few weeks ago there was a couple posts about certain bars being really wide and milky white. Poster (don't remember who it was) said something about their mom or someone talking about it was the best glass u could use to blow. This tv had 2 bars in it that was about 1 1/2 wide and 3/4 in thick and pretty white. Looks like someone poured milk into a mold. Wondering if this is what they were talking about. Maybe someone knows or the poster of that could let me know, or maybe even ben from mtp might know or chime in. Thanks again everyone for the info in advance.