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Yes they are terrible. Should be consigned to museums and never celebrated.

My grandmother had a tube TV with a hot chassis. The Bakelite controls were on chassis connected metal shafts. The only protection you had from being killed was beeswax you had to rely on the TV repair guy to apply to the grub screw holes on the shafts.



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