Just remembered another 'trick' of many old-timers who work with high-voltage stuff: Keep one hand in your pocket! That will prevent you from accidentally forming a connection from one source of high-voltage to a lower source (ground) that just happens to run across your
heart! Not a good place to have high-voltage currents!
It also requires that you maintain a certain degree of decorum in your dress style (or should that be 'pant' style?
)!
And I'm not even going to mention your 'stripping' comments!
BTW, newer Apple CRT's (which are getting hard to find now that the eMac is the only one using them!) included 'bleeding' resistors in the circuits to drain this high-voltage after they were turned off for a while. Of course, it was discovered, by some less than careful tech, that the resistors could sometimes fail!
Jim C.