GE 14" Safety Question

[Jon1967us]

So, I nabbed a pretty sweet little GE 14T007.



Although I currently am enjoying just admiring it on display, I do plan on embarking on a fair amount of testing. I'm fairly new to this hobby and haven't worked on anything like a GE, which has most of its components hidden on the other side of a chassis "firewall".



I want to put a CRT tester on it and then later test for at normal power for raster with test patterns and will want to discharge the CRT before removing the chassis. I don't see anyway to do that before doing so since I can't get to the anode from the back.

Is there a safety concern in handling the chassis before the picture tube can be discharged?