Learned an interesting and handy new term the other day, kind of the opposite of unobtainium..

[dimbear]

13. It's remarkable how many volts there are in some old radios.

Atwater Kents, for example, often have 600 volts or so. Nothing that a 14 year old should be playing with, but probably good training for later life.

I remember once walking down a factory aisle when a power supply for one of our line of RF amplifiers, just a few kilowatts, blew up. Sounded just like a high powered rifle. We all hit the floor. Then we got up and laughed, since nobody got hurt. That thing scattered when it blew........