Quote Originally Posted by Southern Breeze
Dread you are one very,very ,very lucky man!!! The voltage in most CRTs and capacitors is around 25,000v.NO KIDDING.
That's the new CRTs. The old CRTs like those used on classic Macs (With phosphor in the tube) typically had about 35,000 to 50,000, with up to 200,000 volts in static discharge just to get you warmed up before the real current hit. Static is harmless, like from a Van De Graff generator... But it would make you tingle if you were grounded. Once most people felt the static effect though, it was to late, the capacitor charge happened about a microsecond later.

There's a couple of old Mac techies that have stories to tell about hitting the old style CRT tubes.