It gets really impressive when you short one out, leave it on the bench to discharge over night, and accidentally knock the shorting wire off the next morning and it cuts a hole in the stainless steel bench top.

BTDT, but the voltage we'd been running probably was a little higher than typical CRT stuff, and they were BIG capacitors (and the table top wasn't all that thick either). Everybody in the lab was seeing blue spots floating around for about an hour though.

John