How to safely take apart a WeatherX hand-crank radio?

!6 hours and no answer, well, I will jump in to the pool.

After looking at the picture, it does not look very scary.

You do realize that the manufacturer puts that label

"Risk of electric shock, do not open."

On the device so that they do not get sued when someone takes the thing apart to

"harvest the hand crank for a project"?

Just to be on the safe side, take the thing apart wearing rubber gloves.

On a wood bench, not a metal bench unless the bench is grounded

As soon as you can access the capacitor/s short it out with 1,000 ohm resistor.

And keep it shorted.

This will safely drain the capacitor with out damaging it.

You can short the capacitor with a piece of wire,

but the capacitor will be very unhappy about it.

As soon as possible after the case is opened, tape or tie-wire the generator crank handle

To itself to prevent any accidental movement, ie. zapping yourself.

I am assuming that you have a multimeter.

To make sure that the capacitor is fully discharged, remove the 1k ohm shorting resister and

observing the correct polarity measure, the voltage across the capacitor terminals.

If it is below, say 5 volts, it is safe to handle.

Sense you asked this question in the way that you did, I will add my own disclaimer.

"If you do not understand everything you read here, you are not qualified to open

the case of the radio discussed above. Risk of electric shock, do not open."

And I did not answer this question.

Wingman

Your 1st answer is wrong and the 2nd is right. I have a Dynamo Rechargeable GH-858 AM/FM/SW 1-6 8 band world radio. It uses the hand crank generator to charge a 2 cell nicad pack (that has a quick dcisconect socket/plug) and also a place to install a pair of D cells. It also has a built in flashlight. I use the D cells to use the light when in the field (ham operator and photographer/astrominor) and use the generator powered battery most of the time to play the radio.