How long will a TV retain charge after being unplugged?

Despite the scaremongering the facts are these When a TV has been switched off for any Length of time any residual charge bleeds away ! if they did not then the said voltages are NOT lethal or even crippling , . The only place to check is where the eht from the eht transformer connects to the bowl of the CRT , it terminates it what looks like a rubber suction cup , okay if you want to be super cautious you can insert a long plastic handle screwdriver tip under the rubber cap and touch the shaft of the driver to the graphite coating of the CRT bowl ! Now a word of comfort --- if you were to stick your finger under the rubber cap you would feel a shock similar to a car spark plug ! you would shout various expletives but definitely not fatal !!!. If the stories were true then no young people would survive an apprentice ship ! .

Now anyone who wants to refute what I have said has clearly never worked in a TV workshop ! ! .

Cheers Pete

sometimes they can hold a charge for years i would take it to a tv repair place and say take everything out of the tv im sure they wont make you pay to much lol i would hate for you to get hurt cuz you wanted to make a fish tank out of it lol