St Regis radio?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

I've had many working "curtain-burner" radios in my many years of collecting and you could literally lay the cord in a pile of dry paper shreds and nothing will happen. Even after long play time it only gets moderately warm. Pure urban legend that it will burn the house down.
It's the same urban legend with the sheet of asbestos on the top of the inside of the radio in which you better put your Hazmat suit on and dispose of it before it sends you to an early grave!

If the builder of the product wanted U/L listing, they couldn't get it on a set equipped as such.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

If the builder of the product wanted U/L listing, they couldn't get it on a set equipped as such.

I'm sure of that. It definitely isn't the greatest idea, but the severity of it has been a little exaggerated over the years by collectors.