[BC] All American Five

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In a message dated 07/09/2005 11:43:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
khcs at juno.com writes:

> Bingo!  Give that man a (chocolate) cigar!  A 35-volt rectifier, 50-volt 
> audio output, and 3 other tubes (converter, IF, detector *** IIRC) with 
12-volt 
> filaments adding up to (hang on, I gotta take off my socks for this one) -- 
> 121 volts!  The interesting thing about these sets was that one side of the 
> AC cord went directly to the chassis.  And since this was in the days 
before 
> polarized plugs were invented (and not long after the discovery of fire) it 
> was possible for them to be potentially lethal.  

Which is why they were always inside plastic cases, with plastic knobs. I 
lost count of how many of them I tore apart in my foolish youth. Sigh. I wish I 
had kept them. SOME of them would now be worth something! SIGHHHhhh....

*** that tube was also an audio amp as well as detector/agc.

Willie...