That guy looks like my 5 year old trying to carry a Tek 465
I was thinking the same thing about my son and my 454... LOL
Though still not as prehistoric as my first 'scope; a half-finished Eico kit I picked up at my first hamfest in Pittsburgh as a schoolage kid. I got lit up a few times on that thing; taught me a healthy respect for tube electronics and the related bias voltages, I tell you what.
mnem
*tzzzzt* and a half...
I never will forget my first zap off some tube kit. I was 9. I exclaimed “Jesus Christ!” immediately after brushing my hand on a 300v HT line. No one would blink an eye now but I was at my catholic grandmother’s house so this was immediately followed by me being chased up the garden with a broom handle for blaspheming.
This might also have contributed somewhat to my current following of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
OMG... I just flashed on a memory from about the same time; I was messing around with the cover off of the Yaesu FT-101EX I inherited from HB (the M-80 +
"You better run!" fellow from that story I recalled a few weeks ago); my buddy Brian and I were futzing around on Children's Band (hey - we WERE kids then) trying to reach his dad doing a long haul in his truck upstate.
I was trying to trim the multiband antenna that came with the rig (imagine your favorite "two buddies drinking story", complete with one of them nose buried in an instruction pamphlet) and he noticed the glowing 6JS finals...
"Hey... whadda these do..."
*I look up just in time to see him pointing towards one shiny exposed anode cap*
"DON'T TOUCH TH..."
*ZZZZZZZZAAAAAAPPPPP!!!*"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"
RF burns are the WORST.
mnem
I too have been touched by his noodly appendage. No, not THERE, you PERV.