Any post war Television Repairmen here?

Yep, that tube can be a killer, the Navy acyually had a wand like device to pry up the insulator with the lead on the tube and ground it to discharge it.
If Ya don't know what your doing, don't mess with it, but you do what ya want, we all warned Ya.
You won't get any use out of it, I like the flat screen suggestion or fish tank ( to lazy to look up how to spell aquariumn)