Thankyou for your carefully considered response.
Take it along with you when you try to buy liability insurance.


Most boutique/High End vendors do not carry product liability
insurance. They couldn't afford the premiums, and underwriters are not
interested in businesses that small, and trial lawyers aren't
interested in companies without either known substantial PL coverage
or a very wealthy owner dumb enough to have incorporated himself in
any way which could be declared a personal holding corporation.
Winning a big verdict and being handed a set of factory keys is a
nightmare scenario for these sharks.

If they had to carry product liability insurance, most of the
boutique guitar vendors and High End audio companies would fold.

And it's doubtful insurance companies would be the least bit more
understanding of the plethora of products with open tubes with 500 vdc
plate voltages than they would be of a design with a caged,
interlocked tube with two or 3 kV. One shows intent to effectively
keep people away from HV and the other is an attractive nuisance-it's
a wonder no small children (that we know of) haven't been barbecued by
a shattered 6550 in a floor-sitting (boy is that stupid!) High End
amp.