Re: Worth saving?
Yes - these were made by Orion and had a half-mains (yes, I know) chassis.
Years ago we had one in from a nice lady who told me her daughter was getting a shock from the aerial lead. I was obviously concerned and found that the aerial socker must have broken - not uncommon - and instead of replacing the small unit with the isolating capacitors which was an easy and cheap repair, the previous 'repairer' had used a male/female flylead straight into the tuner. I told the very concerned customer that her daughter could have had a very severe shock, so she went back to the repairer (it was a 'proper' shop) all guns blazing as you'd expect. I then heard the shop owner was bad-mouthing me all over the place for getting him into trouble!
It closed not long after....
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