FOUND! ARVIN 9219-cm-uhf television.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

Well, i did manage to find something to play with in the meantime, a rc1121a radio.

being sent to me now.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/rca_rc1121a_2xf931.html

series heaters and DEATHTRAP design. :O
I'm sure this was common when it was made, but it's a good way to get someone shocked/ hurt.
https://i.imgur.com/E04YZfR.jpg
you have to wonder WTH were they thinking?

And I have found a potential TV restoration project, but it may be a hopeless case, no idea yet, it appears to be a CRT ( 21 inch bw ) and chassis that was crudely removed from a cabinet for some reason, fish tank or pet bed or something?

I have NO idea if the tube is any good or not, of if the chassis is is savable, but I can't turn down the price $0
I will try to get that this weekend.

By the 1950s the knobs were captive to the cabinet, the chassis bolts thread into nylon insulators on the chassis, and the back prevented touching the chassis....A complete set would have no direct chassis electrical connections exposed and the chassis would have a bleeder resistor that would limit shock to non-lethal levels....not as safe as a transformer but as long as owners don't defeat the safeties and don't bathe with it they'd never know the difference...

Go back to the forties and you get fun stuff like my Sonora radio/phono...the metal toggles for motor power and radio/phono and the metal pickup arm are tied directly to the hot chassis and you get to choose whether you want them to shock you with the power off or the power on.

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

By the 1950s the knobs were captive to the cabinet, the chassis bolts thread into nylon insulators on the chassis, and the back prevented touching the chassis....A complete set would have no direct chassis electrical connections exposed and the chassis would have a bleeder resistor that would limit shock to non-lethal levels....not as safe as a transformer but as long as owners don't defeat the safeties and don't bathe with it they'd never know the difference...

Go back to the forties and you get fun stuff like my Sonora radio/phono...the metal toggles for motor power and radio/phono and the metal pickup arm are tied directly to the hot chassis and you get to choose whether you want them to shock you with the power off or the power on.

but was it really so safe to be 1 missing knob or leaky cap from getting the crap shocked out of ya?

something like that could never be sold to day, I'm sure! :p

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

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something like that could never be sold to day, I'm sure! :p

And sets in Australia during this time period, being 240 volts almost always were transformer sets. Quite a different era.