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And EVERY time I say that, no sooner do the words come out of my mouth, and I see something else!

I was so proud of my booth at the Drive-In in Peterborough, Ontario. It was after all, the first booth of which I was in charge.

A couple of times a week, I would stay after work (on my own time) to mop and wax the tile floor to a beautiful shine. The doorway to the booth opened to the concession stand, so anyone could look in. One had to keep up appearances, after all.

The door was long since removed, but a short chain, and sign, hung across the opening with the words "No Admittance" (although I sometimes found that the ushers had taped a "Do not feed the monkey" sign over it).

Every piece of chrome on the lamp-house and projector were regularly polished with Brasso.

The sound system was a Western Electric W5-19A tube-type with the power amps near the bottom. The 807 mercury-vapor rectifier tubes and output tubes were quite visable through a small grille in the front of the unit.

Naturally, I had polished not only the glass tubes but the white porcelain plate-caps to perfection too. (They did look rather "cool" with the mercury-vapor tubes glowing blue and pulsing in time to the sound).

As I say, I was quite proud of this booth, thus it was distressing for me to notice that one of the plate caps was not on quite straight. No big problem, even though the show was running, I could straighten it with a long screwdriver poked through the grille.

I didn't blow a fuse or lose sound, but 1400 volts can be quite a nasty experience when you have a change-over coming up.

Do not trust that the filter caps will discarge by themselves (a few good men have been killed over the years when a bleeder resistor opened in a unit and didn't do its job of discharging the filter caps).

um... 807s are beam-power tubes, not rectifiers... Perhaps you were thinking of 83s or 866s?