[BC] 110 V DC AC/DC radios 5 tube all american

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:48 pm, ChuxGarage at aol.com wrote:
> 
> >Was only dangerous if you put the plug in the wall the wrong way....  Good
> >thing for polarized plugs, huh?

> When I was in High School, I worked part time at the local TV repair  shop.  
> Most TV's were series wired sets with one side of the  power line connected to 
> the metal chassis.

 My most vivid ( which isn't ) memory of this, dealt with a Curtis Mathis console TV,
 that with the cord plugged in one way, put the hot side of the line on the antenna
 connector, and plugged in the other way put the hot to the chrome knobs.
 ( how they accomplished that I remember not )

 If futzing with the antenna, and you reached around to adjust the volume, or change
 channels, you got nailed either way. ( I did )
 With a proper antenna installation, there was AC line on all of the chrome.
 A really, REALLY bad idea.
 Glad they went out of business, which they richly deserved.

 I'm still amazed that such unsafe junk was ever sold at all.

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Cowboy