Noob question about discharging a television

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So an arcade monitor would normally have the jumper wire clipped to the frame, but most televisions (or at least mine) doesn't have any real frame to it, just the plastic case. So where would be a safe place to attach my jumper wire for discharge?
 
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Discharge to the dag wire.

That is correct. The CRT is a giant capacitor, with conductive paint on both the inside and outside serving as the capacitor plates. The dag wire contacts the outside "plate," the anode connects to the inside "plate."
 
Do you think it's safe to run the jumper wire to the bolt that holds the tube to the plastic case?

Not unless that bolt is electrically connected to the dag. As Darren pointed out, you are trying to short out a big capacitor. The anode hole is one leg, the aquadag is the other. Since you can't clip anything to the dag itself (it's a coating), you clip to whatever is electrically at the same potential as the dag. The purpose of the dag wire is to stay tight against the aquadag to connect it to the ground plane of the circuit. It's also easy to get to since most of it is bare.
 
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