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Originally Posted by Robb
Why would the Japanese build them like this ? Did they want to kill Americans after WW2 ?
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We built them the same way in America before and after WWII....In fact the early ones we made in the 30's before designing the tube filaments to properly drop the entire line voltage were even more dangerous as the third wire in the cloth power cord was the dropping resistor for the filaments, and it had a reputation for getting hot enough to set the insulation on fire...They called those sets curtain burners.
I own and have gotten shocked by some American hot chassis sets. As long as you are not well grounded it don't really hurt, it just tingles a bit.
There were UL approved hot chassis sets that were potentially lethal like their non-approved brethren...They would just not kill you as hard/easily.