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Originally Posted by Electronic M
By the 1950s the knobs were captive to the cabinet, the chassis bolts thread into nylon insulators on the chassis, and the back prevented touching the chassis....A complete set would have no direct chassis electrical connections exposed and the chassis would have a bleeder resistor that would limit shock to non-lethal levels....not as safe as a transformer but as long as owners don't defeat the safeties and don't bathe with it they'd never know the difference...
Go back to the forties and you get fun stuff like my Sonora radio/phono...the metal toggles for motor power and radio/phono and the metal pickup arm are tied directly to the hot chassis and you get to choose whether you want them to shock you with the power off or the power on.
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but was it really so safe to be 1 missing knob or leaky cap from getting the crap shocked out of ya?
something like that could never be sold to day, I'm sure! :p