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> This is a very thin piece of metal (or a grid of thin wires in certain cases) that is easily magnetized. Worse, a strong magnet (especially a modern rare-ear
by duskwuff 3y ago
> This is a very thin piece of metal (or a grid of thin wires in certain cases) that is easily magnetized.
Worse, a strong magnet (especially a modern rare-earth magnet) can bend the shadow mask, causing color distortion which can't be corrected by degaussing.
- nneonneo 3y agoOh my goodness, I wonder if that’s what I did to my parent’s TV as a kid? I remember clearly playing with a large hard drive magnet near the TV and causing the TV to change colours - we ended up with a purple blob in one corner that never went away even after many rounds of degaussing and power cycling.
- db48x 3y agoYup. That’s exactly what you did.