Do not disassemble a CRT on a whim. Even if you’re being careful, it can go wrong. There’s strong magnets, glass under pressure, capacitors that can hold a deadly charge for a long time, and toxic chemicals.
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They may not get your face, but that thing is pretty recognizable. Maybe do a mass produced guy fawkes mask instead?
Don't those old monitors have high voltage components that you can use to make a DIY tazer, if not kill yourself in process.
Yes. The capacitors can carry a high charge for a long time. Much longer than you'd think. Also there is a pressurized glass tube with very strong magnets which could lead to sever pinching or breaking the pressure tube.
It's definitely not something people should do without knowing what they're doing.
Not just the capacitors, the tube itself is a capacitor that handles multiple kilovolts, so you can easily hit the wrong side of the flyback transformer or poke the wrong part of the tube and get fried.
Not just an "Ouch, don't do that again", more of a heart just stops.
CRT taser sounds like a very poor idea
Yes, but hear me out.
You can REALLY fuck shit up with 20kV.
Fun fact: Anything with a big capacitor/s can be use to make a DIY taser, sometimes it's as easy as removing the case to expose the circuit board and pressing that against your enemies.
Brings me back to when everyone in my highschool got really into DIY tasers. Some of us still carry the burn scars.
Me and my friends figured out you could buy big CRT televisions for about $12 from thrifts once flat screens were a majority. We used to smash them with baseball bats in the woods. Did this over and over because it was cheap thrill. Never realized how dangerous this potentially could have been.
We had a guy in our city rob a bank, wearing a hoodie, but it exposed a bit of his face, which showed him to be Caucasian.
Later they realized that he had used a stretchy fabric hood with a face printed on it. They sell them on the Internet, often with celebrity faces. When pulled over the head, it clings to your face, and looks a lot like a real face, if you don't get a close look. It fooled the little local cops and news for a minute. It might work well to fool facial rec, especially when all the protesters are described as looking like Kobe Bryant.
The big brain play is to get a stretchy fabric hood with your actual face on it because why would anyone do that? If they question you, say that you're being framed.
I've wondered about the ethics of wearing a mask with a different race. It's supposed to throw off the authorities further, but the ethics of blaming it on a black person are clearly questionable.
OTOH, the whole idea is to throw off the authorities, so it makes sense to do that. Then again, aren't they going to see right through that, and know it's really a white guy? Cops? Probably not.
I'm just thinking I'll get one with a woman's face, and really blow their minds. Or maybe one with Trump's face, but that just offends my own sensibilities.
The key is to breathe in the microplastics deeply.
That poor CRT monitor deserved better than that.
Ok but what about Gait recog ?
You'll still need to get around gait recognition.
A few shots of spirit can fix that.
A rock in one shoe and a buttplug askew…
Until ai recalibrates & notes that as your disheveled state.
I mean, sorta, except then you'll be the dude with the white plague doctor mask, so....
Trying to decide what’s worse: trying to breathe or the feel of adhesive and sharp bits of plastic against my face.
Hmm. Yeah I can see how someone could look at the back of a CRT and envision the sloping down of a forehead into a long beak.
But where did the bottom piece come from? It has tiny holes all over and i cant picture any part of the case that has that contour. And its never shown in any other pic
Bottom of the mask is the part cut out in the top right picture. It comes from the slope on the top back part of the monitor.
No the top right is clearly one of the face pieces, you can even see where half the eyehole is cut. It also has a large portion without the little holes in it just like the face pieces.
You're right, I clearly didn't look at it close enough.
However, I think I am correct for the source of the material. Now that I look closer I'm pretty sure that the top right picture is actually of the monitor turned on its side. And then he would have taken the matching cut from the other side of the monitor for the other side of the mask.
I would say it comes from the top of the monitor and it was bent into shape somehow like the forehead piece was. Maybe with heat.
And face coverings are now illegal in public.
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