What is a hot SS chassis?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by maxhifi

You have now! Especially in a tube set, which requires more frequent service, it is nice to know your life is not in jeopardy just by touching the chassis. Cold chassis sets are safer to work on, and don't require a cumbersome isolation trabsformer.

I was always biased, toward a transformer power supply, in a vacuum tube set. I always considered it to be a higher quality model.
It seemed funny that Muntz, being one of the lowest priced sets, used full power transformers until around the 1955 model year.