[Hallicrafters] More: 3-Prong plug - the right way

[Weiss]

Hi all,

I might be showing (yet) MORE of my ignorance...but what would be wrong with simply connecting the BLACK of a 3-prong plug to the switch side; the white to the other side of transformer primary and the green (prong) to the chassis? The NEC says never to connect an on/off switch to the grounding path and the fact that the white and black leads are connected to the primary of the transformer is not all that different from the way it was originally only you no longer run the risk of being "bit" with reverse polarized voltages. Add a fuse block to the black lead and shouldn't the clouds part and the blue sky begin to appear?

If I am wrong...and I am often...please critique this method because I can't see what would be wrong with it and I am interested in other opinions and theories.

ZUT + thanks, Vern W9STB