how does one get shocked dismanteling a crt

If has been plugged in recently you are going to get shocked when your taking it apart as the capacitors will still have a charge built up in them. If its been sitting around for a year your good to go. I guess you could discharge the big capacitors before you start working on it also. Ive been shocked a few times but never that bad its all felt like 110 volts or less to me.

I hate all of you lol.

Originally Posted by TheHoss

I hate all of you lol.

haha! Hoss, I guess this place is the only one worse than my Mom, about Not forgetting (particular) stuff ; )

Maybe I've been lucky so far, but I don't discharge any of the TV's/monitors. Maybe it helps that I use insulated tools, who knows.

I always ground every tube I do just to be safe. I use 2 grounding wires with alligator clips with a screw driver. Just in case one wire doesn't have good ground. Older tubes didn't have the bleed off circuit. After you ground it out leave rubber cup on tube, cut wire off with well insulated cutter. My screw driver is wrapped with electrical tape almost down to the end. The tube itself holds the voltage. Its your life and I don't trust technology.

most tv's have a discharging thing under the cap so it does it anyway.
I have my own quarantine section just incase and any fresh tv, monitor or microwave I get goes at the back of the queue.
a week or so and it would be impossible to have power still there.

but thinking about the 300 odd i've done so far, I can't remember ever actually touching the cap, I cut the wire and that's it,
why does the cap need removing anyway?

Originally Posted by scrapperben

I have my own quarantine section just incase and any fresh tv, monitor or microwave I get goes at the back of the queue.
a week or so and it would be impossible to have power still there.

very good advice for future newbies who stumble on this thread. eliminates what I call the Tesla dance, which is when you dance around flailing your hands in the air after boneheadedly resting your hand on the tube when you're in the process of discharging it. Dance and flail, then you touch it again, dance and flail, touch a different part dance and flail, try it again holding the wrong part of the screwdriver, dance some more. Then you pretty much know you'd better pay attention, or set up Ben's queue. (I went with the queue)

Those anti-static bracelets for working with computers and other sensitive electronic components are awesome. And dirt cheap... heck, it would probably be easy to make one yourself with scrap you have lying around.
Just make sure the grounding wire that connects you to whatever piece of metal you're using (usually the steel frame of whatever you're working on) is nice and long, but not so long that it will catch on stuff. And make sure that you strap it so that the bare metal on the bracelet itself is making contact with your skin, or it defeats the purpose.
They're kind of a PITA, and to be honest I hardly ever use them, but for CRTs that I'm unsure about I will always wear one. Better safe than sorry... it's true that it's very rare to get zapped, but it only takes once. Same with repairing PCs and whatnot... dangers of static discharge causing damage really is over exaggerated, but it CAN happen, and it sucks when it does. It actually happened to me once, years ago... spilled coffee in my tower, turned it off immediately and tried to dry it off and all that. Couple hours later I'm poking around in it trying to find moisture, and accidentally brushed a finger across the north bridge heatsink... ZAP! The tiniest little spark, but that's more than enough to permanently fry it... if you can actually SEE the spark, it's something like 1000x the voltage needed to actually kill chips.
So yeah... to back everyone else up : Better safe than sorry!

Remember, you can get shocked even after everything is off just from the glass thats left. I once had everything off/out of a monitor and as I was reaching over it to pick up the cover to put back on - zap!