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They should have banned them here... SO many people died from those little metal radios from the late 30s. Some even had metal knobs. I have a friend who lost his frat brother that way while he was at USC. Came home and found the guy in the bath tub dead, with a 5-tube metal radio on a table next to the tub. Metal knobs, guy's arm slumped out of the tub below the radio. (Happened in the mid-1940s). Those are often called "Suicide radios" buy collectors. I've been knocked across the room by F-connector receptacles on various TVs, in cases where the polarized plug was defeated, or where the house was wired backwards.
With all the lawsuits everywhere in today's society, I can't believe they still have live-chassis items on the market today in 2009.
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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