Any post war Television Repairmen here?

ah heck why not, cheap entertainment and hobby

We used to charge them up in the cal lab and when someone walked in we would toss it to them, but one of the stupider things we did was throw a couple of ounces of trich (Trichlorotrifluoromethane) (used to clean out gauges before calibrating them, freezes on contact because it evaps a below room temp, yep coulda blinded someone.
Then there's the time they gave us "line pukes" 5 gallons of toulene and some rags to clean the inside of an H-3G, in the winter with the doors closed, we was messed up in minutes to say the least.