COLIN LAMB wrote:
They are a classic radio, so enjoy it.

Carter, K8VT wrote:

It's also an AC-DC radio with one side of the line grounded to the
chassis and it has a metal cabinet--a killer.

So enjoy it CAREFULLY!

Uncle Peter wrote:

The chassis should have intergral electrical insulators that
isolate it from the cabinet.

Uncle Peter, you're right! The operative words are "should have". But,
as Dirty Harry once famously asked, "How lucky do you feel?"

As long as the original poster realizes that all that is between him and
an eyeball rattling shock is 4 crumbling, rotted 50 year old rubber
washers that may or may not even be there, then he'll be OK...