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What stores the dangerous energy in a CRT device is the CRT itself. It has a metal coating inside and out with the glass in between. The CRT acts as a big capacitor.

CRTs are much more dangerous if they happen to be charged when OUT of the equipment they were meant for. In normal installation, they will "bleed off."

I had a CRT OUT of a TV up in the rafters of our garage when I was a kid, and managed to get an uncomfortable tingle off that after it had been up there for weeks.

That's what the wire plugs into on the side of the CRT, known as the "second anode" and depending on the device, can be charged to many kilovolts. They ARE lethal. I'm talking seriously dead, lethal.