[462ron]

Too funny MrFixr. The things we did as kids including things we had no right to mess with. I think I told this story before but when I first got interested in electronics as a young teen, I only played around with battery projects until one day a friend of mine and me found a floor model radio at the curb. Don’t remember the make or model but we dragged to his basement and removed the chassis and speaker. Put it on a table and started messing with it and me with no knowledge of radios or circuits at the time. Well my friend was leaning on the speaker which was upside down and at the same time he reached for one of the control shafts that had no knob on it. He screamed and was thrown against the wall which his mom heard. She comes down to find out what happened and after learning he gor a bad shock, she made us get rid of the radio and never mess with this stufff again! I now know that he probably was in contact with one of the field coil terminals with his arm and when he grabbed that bare metal shaft with his hand he got the full brunt of probably 300+ volts! He lost all interest in electronics after that while I continued on to this day.

Ron