[Amps] Shock hazard?

[Tony King]

ohhh... I didn't see that in the picture. Where is it? zt

At 11:24 PM 11/12/2004, Harold B. Mandel wrote:
>There's a composition resistor between the line cord and chassis ground.
>This is a
>common configuration of several years ago, especially found in 5-tube
>radios.
>
>HBM
>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:53:36 -0500 Tony King <amps at w4zt.com> writes:
> > At 03:50 PM 11/12/2004, Harold B. Mandel wrote:
> > >Dear Will,
> > >
> > >Let's see, the a.c. cord is probably not polarized, so that means
> > the
> > >chassis can either be hot or neutral, depending upon the
> > insertion.....
> >
> > Looking at the pictures, the line cord doesn't appear to be
> > grounded.  In
> > the 7th picture you can clearly see the line cord attached to a 5
> > lug
> > terminal strip with two of the lugs attached with rivets to the
> > chassis.  The line cord is not attached to one of those. One would
> > hope
> > that the applied line voltage goes to transformer windings. Of
> > course a 3
> > wire cord would help but without it doesn't necessarily mean there
> > is a
> > dangerous condition.
> > <snip>
> >
> > 73, Tony W4ZT