"Luke" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:07:14 GMT, "toller" wrote:

I am strongly tempted to say that you are having fun with us.
Grounded appliance (three prong) have the chassis attached to the ground.
If your ground at the breaker box was broken, and the ground wires were
shorted to a hot, you could get a voltage off the chassis. This would
require urgent attention.
But you would not get a reading off the chassis of ungrounded appliance
(two
prong) because they are not attached to anything.

Either explain the problem in more detail, or go away.

I didn't believe it at first, either :-). Yes, only two-prong
appliances show hot. Grounded appliances, like the washer, dryer,
stove, as best I can test, aren't hot. I had the antenna grounded to
the main house electrical ground, when I disconnected that, I still
get hot two-prong appliances, testing between the appliance
F-connector or housing and either the antenna lead or ground on an
outlet.

Sorry, but this is over my head to diagnose without seeing it.
It can't be induced voltage because you don't get a shock off induced
voltage.
It can't be a floating neutral because you would be having other serious
effects (lights way too bright, lights way too dim) from a floating neutral.
And it can't be from your cable system because you don't have a cable
system.
And that exhausts this group's suggestions.

Obviously you have test more systematically to isolate the problem, but you
already know that.
Good luck.