On 26-May-05, at 11:15 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On May 26, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Not really on topic, but since I didn't have any other place to ask...
I have my Apple Studio Display 17 that stopped displaying a picture
last
week. I did replace it with a 19" LCD display, so I'm not really
trying to
repair it.
However, I already had an Apple Studio Display 21 that stopped
working last
year. So, I have 2 of those big CRTs taking space and I was wondering
what
to do with them. I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the power
supply
and somebody more experienced with televisions and CRTs might be able
to
repair them.
I'm not looking to repair them, just to get rid of them. I was
thinking that
I could maybe offer them on the LEM-Swap list.
Probably not worth it. Even repaired, they're not worth the cost of
shipping them; perhaps you can find a home for them locally. But
there's a huge glut of CRT's out there.
We have two different charitable organizations here that refurb
computers; both are now telling people they no longer accept CRT
monitors unless they're coming with the whole computer, and if they
could just have the computer, pretty please...
This is a serious problem, these things are toxic in landfills and
very expensive to recycle.
If you have a local freecycle group <http://www.freecycle.org/> you
might get someone to take it off your hands...
--
Bruce Johnson
Hear, hear! This whole subject niggles at me constantly. I've got a
lovely old monochrome portrait monitor that I used for a long time with
a IIci because I love to see a whole page up on the screen. I've still
got it packed away, moved it across the continent a couple of times
(with my wife smiling as I lug it to the truck because I don't want it
banged, even though it now has a crack in one corner of the front
bezel) but I'll never use it again. I just can't bear to throw it
away. Maybe I should have it put in the casket with me?
For those who don't know it, this organization is worth knowing about:
http://www.lanecrrc.org/about/macrenewal.php
Rick
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