Hey everyone,
I'm a long time Mac user, but am new to the tinkering and repairs side of things. I bought a Performa 575 off of eBay for really cheap, but unfortunately it was packed poorly and arrived with the shell pretty bashed up. I was able to salvage a lot of the internal parts. I'm just not sure what to do with the picture tube. Is it worth it to try to find a home for it?
I don't know if it would actually work, were it to be swapped into another machine, although I did plug the Performa in and I could hear it make a deguassing/power-up sound. I didn't dare do more than that, since I know monitors can carry a lot of charge and I'm not knowledgeable enough to keep myself from getting zapped.
I could just take it to a nearby dump where I know they take hazardous materials, but these parts aren't becoming any more plentiful. What would a real Mac guru do?
I'm a long time Mac user, but am new to the tinkering and repairs side of things. I bought a Performa 575 off of eBay for really cheap, but unfortunately it was packed poorly and arrived with the shell pretty bashed up. I was able to salvage a lot of the internal parts. I'm just not sure what to do with the picture tube. Is it worth it to try to find a home for it?
I don't know if it would actually work, were it to be swapped into another machine, although I did plug the Performa in and I could hear it make a deguassing/power-up sound. I didn't dare do more than that, since I know monitors can carry a lot of charge and I'm not knowledgeable enough to keep myself from getting zapped.
I could just take it to a nearby dump where I know they take hazardous materials, but these parts aren't becoming any more plentiful. What would a real Mac guru do?