dropped a 1956 hotpoint
 

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!

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

2 words:

Isolation Transformer

Was Led Zeppelin playing when this event happened?

"You know you shoke me baby..." :music:

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" :sigh:

That'll learn ya...

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

At the very minimum, a GFCI protected outlet. :thmbsp:

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

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

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.

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.

Is it bad, that as soon as I saw a thread about a TV being dropped, I knew who it was before I opened it?

Anyways, I AM glad you're ok.

Glad your ok too just be more careful next time.

Best to let the Darwin culling process work unimpeded.

JUST KIDDING !!!

:wave::o

That is a hot chassis set, one side of the chassis is connected directly to the AC, if you happen to plug it in so it's the hot side you can get zapped, flipping the plug over in the wall socket should fix that but an isolation transformer is a lot safer.

A transformer still won't save you from getting across the B+ line and chassis ground however and it's a lot higher voltage than the 115 from the wall.