On Sat, 31 May 2008 18:12:17 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
John J Armstrong wrote:
Indeed. Our radiogram was made c1949 by the Seymour Radio Company,
Arbroath, Angus. It had a mains transformer. I re-cased it when I
was 15, and discovered (the hard way!) that even so the chassis could
be live depending on how it was plugged in. First thing I did was fit
a new colour coded flex.

You mean it used a transformer for the heaters but mains derived HT? That
was pretty unusual with radios, IMHO. Meant it was AC only too. Most
cheaper radios were universal - and some used the mains lead as a dropper
too. Nasty things. ;-)


Yes, that was it.

And no, Phil, I did not eff up the AC wiring!

John Armstrong