View Single Post
  #19  
Old 09-24-2014, 07:35 PM
Eric H's Avatar
Eric H Eric H is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: So. Calif
Posts: 11,565
Quote:
Originally Posted by Telecruiser View Post
I suspect he real reason it was changed is the insulator used for the metal tube had a very bad habit of breaking down and would start arcing at some very inconvenient time.
Just curious, were your folks smokers?

Tobacco soot + high voltage can really collect dust in a hurry (we've all seen what smokers sets look like inside!) so if they were that might account for the frequent problems.
Reply With Quote