Alok

Thanks for the reminder. It's something that has been on my mind and a concern. This danger is shared by some of my other TVs of the same vintage and I intend to check all of the spacers/insulators as well as voltage checks for hot cabinet to ground.

I have another set, a Travler, where the metal bracket that holds the CRT is tied to the cabinet, which concerns me greatly as the metal "collar" that fits around the CRT neck makes contact with the dag coated outside of that tube. There would've been rubber between this bracket collar and the CRT but it is shrunk and petrified.

I bought a roll of fish paper at the local electronics parts place and I plan to use this to insulate any potentially dangerous contact points. We'll see.

Chassis isolation on these GE is adaquate...can always check megaohm range resistance between cord and cabinet if you're worried.

I just modified a Zenith MJ1035W that is going to the family cabin. It used to be a hot chassis with a filament transformer now it is got an isolation transformer built in.

When my plan was to restore a 1952 GE 19" hot chassis I was going to put a GFI plug on the TV. If I see an curling iron or hair dryer at a tag sale for a buck or two I'll buy them if they have that plug. They're usually good for 1000 watts or so. Yes, they're ugly (particularly the white ones), but I usually put them on AC/DC radios if I give a restored one away to someone.

John