phreakout, your sage words of advice might as well have been spoken into the air during an electrical storm because none of the CRT Chickens out there have ever listened to reason nor will they now. Our very own Professor Tom Lee at Stanford University provided some excellent advice which I have trumpeted many times over the past few years. And yet, this silly topic keeps rearing its ugly head. Perhaps it needs to be made a sticky under the title of "CRT Danger & Fear-Mongering" so people will finally take note.
This will be the last time I say it, you chickens...
Step-1) With the machine powered on, crank the knob under the faceplate on your compact Mac so the screen is at Full Brightness.
Step-2) Yank the power cable at back.
Step-3) Open the Mac and do your job without worry of death by CRT shock.
And for those of you who are still not satisfied and demand a technical essay on why all the talk about CRT Danger is little more than fear-mongering:
http://lowendmac.com/tech/crt_danger.html
