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Originally Posted by Tom9589
I'm going to repeat an urban legend here (which means it may or may not be true).
I heard the x-ray problem was due to GE not wanting to pay RCA royalties for using the 6BK4 and came out with their own shunt regulator which generated the x-rays. The story goes that a woman had a cat that liked to sleep under the warm console TV when it was on. The cat started losing hair and the source of the problem was then discovered. I do know that GE replaced a lot of their first generation shunt regulator tubes as a part of a recall.
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Knowing GE it probably was a matter of them not wanting to add $0.10 worth of shielding metal for the shunt reg/HV rect.