[BC] All American Five

[gRAdy Moates]

> Phil Alexander wrote:
>>Yup! Two of the tubes were nearly always 35W4 (rectifier) and 50C5
>>(audio output).
>>
>>Working on one with the plug in backward could be interesting.
> 
> 
> Good ol' "hot chassis" radios.  And they always switched the ground 
> side so even if you plugged it in the "right" way, the chassis was hot 
> when the radio was off.

My first transmitter was (at age 11) a Knight-Kit "Radio Broadcaster-
Amplifier" with two 50C5's (modulator & RFPA) and a 12AX7 (mic 
preamp).  

We lived on a concrete slab-on-grade house.  Plug it in the wall one 
way, and I got shocked with it on.  Plug it in the other way, and I got 
shocked with it off.  

Didn't take long for me to just mark the plug for polarity and use the 
plug for a switch.  

Yeah, I could still learn something when I was 11, if the pain level was 
high enough.  Now, " Ain't no pain strong enuf to larn me nothin'. "  

Grady