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Dec 12th 2009
By: sushibandit
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Back in the 60′s they use to have these vacuum tube testing machines in your local grocery store. You could put your old tube in the correct socket, flip the switch and see if it needed replacing. I soon learned that if you put your fingers across several sockets at the same time you could get a nasty shock. Needless to say I only did it once!
wahnula
December 15th, 2009 at 19:18
WOW…flashback! These were everywhere, even in convenience stores. At our neighborhood U-Tote-Em store, it was called a "U-Test-Em". They involved quite a bit of customer involvement, you not only needed to select the correct socket, but also needed to adjust the knobs for the correct parameters. No way this could be done today, liability issues would overwhelm it.
I give you one point for getting shocked by one (never happened to me), but take that point back if it really was your first electric shock…that should have happened long before you were tall enough to reach this machine.
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