[ARC5] Hallicrafters S-38 is dangerous

hwhall at compuserve.com hwhall at compuserve.com
Tue Nov 17 13:35:53 EST 2015


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I have owned and worked on several S-38 receivers and am 
very familiar with the way they are constructed.
...
Hallicrafters did what was typical at the time 
to protect the user.  The chassis can not be
touched in normal use because there is a back cover 
with an interlocked power cord.  You need 
a cheater cord to work on the set.
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I assume that last half was meant to refer only to typical consumer item construction. The S-38E I have certainly had no interlocked power cord - it passed directly into the bare chassis (not to be confused with the painted cabinet). Every old TV I took apart, and some later-model plastic AM-FM sets I tinkered with, did have an interlock, tough.

Wayne
WB4OGM
 



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