dropped a 1956 hotpoint

[radiotron]

So i was going to test a picture tube , and i dropped my hotpoint portable
and when i tured it on to see if it sill worked ZAPP! IT SHOKED ME!
the cabinet was electrified!

[CoogarXR]

It was probably trying to teach you to stop picking up TVs...

[N2IXK]

2 words:

Isolation Transformer

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by N2IXK

2 words:

Isolation Transformer

At the very minimum, a GFCI protected outlet.

[Einar72]

Was Led Zeppelin playing when this event happened?

"You know you shoke me baby..."

And from Ten Commandments for Technicians (should you live to find a significant other):

"Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways"

[Celt]

That'll learn ya...

[Reece]

I like it, "shoke" a new past tense for "shocked."

[maxhifi]

The worst shock I have ever had was when I was about your age, someone gave me a Tandberg 64x tape recorder to play with.... Took a dose of 300 volt B+ and had to go lay down for a good half hour Wow did I ever learn my lesson, have been very careful ever since. At

[tvtimeisfun]

Hello Johnny you are lucky that tv did not fall on your head next time do not stack your sets that high because if it would fall on your head the rastermaster as you call your self would be dead so please be careful as long as you did not get injured your o.k....Timothy

[AiboPet]

YIKES!

Don't stack TV sets on top of other sets....especially if that bottom set is on legs of any sort. That's just an accident waiting to happen. I'm even weird about putting my little tiny micro sets on top of eachother. MOST of them sit directly on a shelf. I do have in the front room a couple little 4" sets on top of some 9" color sets...but I'm more concerned about scratching the cabinets than them falling over or something.

Big 'ol sets are far too "front heavy" to be stacking. The larger "newer" sets are WORSE with that problem, because the little PC board "chassis" isn't NEARLY heavy enough to keep the set down in back.

[DaveWM]

metal chassis has built in isolation mounts (plastic inserts) that isolate the chassis from the cabinet. Also any tube shields need to be in place (not allowed to come into contract with the metal cabinet.

the drop may have bent the cabinet enough to come into contact with the chassis OR damaged a isolation mount Or knocked a tube shield loose.

All safety caps should have been replaced already as well.

Too be extra safe if you are accident prone would be to use an isolation transformer.

[radiotron]

Originally Posted by AiboPet

YIKES!

Don't stack TV sets on top of other sets....especially if that bottom set is on legs of any sort. That's just an accident waiting to happen. I'm even weird about putting my little tiny micro sets on top of eachother. MOST of them sit directly on a shelf. I do have in the front room a couple little 4" sets on top of some 9" color sets...but I'm more concerned about scratching the cabinets than them falling over or something.

Big 'ol sets are far too "front heavy" to be stacking. The larger "newer" sets are WORSE with that problem, because the little PC board "chassis" isn't NEARLY heavy enough to keep the set down in back.

well this stack wasnt big it was just on top a zenith console.

although i do stack em' high!
my highest stack is a sylvania halolight combo,and a zenith color ontop that and a sylvania slim jim on that a silvertone radio ontop that then a pair of 50s rabbit ears.

[Mal Fuller]

There's a reason your set was called a "Hotpoint."

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Mal Fuller

There's a reason your set was called a "Hotpoint."

The Hotpoint name seemed to be rather common in Australia. They even have radios with that name.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by radiotron

well this stack wasnt big it was just on top a zenith console.

although i do stack em' high!
my highest stack is a sylvania halolight combo,and a zenith color ontop that and a sylvania slim jim on that a silvertone radio ontop that then a pair of 50s rabbit ears.

I agree with aibopet; that stack (the big one you mention with three large TVs and a radio) is a safety hazard. I'd put those sets next to one another on a shelf or some other arrangement so that they cannot possibly fall. I have seen small portable TVs set atop consoles (pre-DTV), and some folks use their old CRT TV as a stand for a new flat screen when the old set goes bad; this is OK and safe, since the stack is not that high (just two sets, and flat screens aren't that large or heavy anyway so there's almost no load on top of the old sets). Your arrangement, as aibopet stated, is an accident just waiting to happen, and it probably will -- sooner rather than later.