[TV MAN]

Oh the adventures we had a young ones! That Zenith was given to me with a shrunken and bloomed picture, but found if I set it on it's side and bumped things around, it would sometimes kick in and play like it should. I knew it was around the horizontal and HV section, so unwittingly I started tapping around the 6HV5 regulator pins with what I had on hand, an pencil! I figured it was a loose connection. So, yeah, zapped It actually turned out to be a bad tube, saw the cathode lead spark while thumping around the the picture would straighten out then get bad again. I wasn't even driving age but loved those old tube Zeniths, and this one was almost like new at the time. Still have it! Just never had the heart to get rid of it. I used it until I moved off to college after a Westinghouse re-tube. The worst I had was a shock from the focus voltage on a SS TV when my necklace (yeah, I was a young punk) hit the PCB on the neck of a TV I was working on. Yah! No more necklaces

Added: This "crystal generation" we have now will never know the thrills and adventures we X'ers and Boomers had growing up! Their biggest adventures circle around a touch screen and keyboard! They'll never experience shocks, skinned knees, cut/burned hands and the thrill of putting something together from scrap parts from a hand sketched paper with unreadable hieroglyphics copied from a magazine or radio book and making something work! They really don't know what they are missing!