Quote Originally Posted by amfine View Post
The ferrite in all transformers is recyclable. It is not ceramic. I keep it in a separate bucket--borken or whole. Once the bucket is full, I take it to the yard and get paid. It's metal!



As for the degaussing cable in black tape; most of the time it's #2 copper (orange/red not pink). Same as the tube cone copper.
My question is....that silver dust that flies around when you break the glass...it's lead????
Please don't break the glass, you are releasing phospher which is considered hazardous waste along with the lead. Here is the condensed version. The lead is in the front glass.
In a CRT, phosphor coats the inside of the screen. When the electron beam strikes the phosphor, it makes the screen glow. In a black-and-white screen, there is one phosphor that glows white when struck. In a color screen, there are three phosphors arranged as dots or stripes that emit red, green and blue light. There are also three electron beams to illuminate the three different colors together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor