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Originally Posted by Reece

First order of business is to get the Mrs. fixed up. I hope everything goes OK with that and she gets relief. My thoughts are with you.

Tubes are generally not the problem with old radios: most of the old sets I get have all the tubes good or maybe one bad. If you have an ohmmeter (Harbor Freight: digital multimeter, about $4.00) put the leads on the fat pins of each tube. If you get continuity, it means the filament is still good, and that usually means the tube is, also. If you get continuity on those, I'd just fill any empty sockets, for now.

As to tube sources, I have generally placed a "wanted" post in the Radio Classified section of Antique Radio Forums and got several good responses, and I have bought from various individuals. Many of our fellow enthusiasts have extensive collections of tubes and sell them at very fair prices as they don't have any overhead to speak of to maintain. You could also post here in the Classifieds, I just have never done that yet.

Thanks for the kind words. Surgery is next week so it is just pain between now and then.

Two of the Sylvania 24A tubes may be good, one has the cap fitting loose, and one tube is missing. I will need at least two 24A (224) tubes and one each for the 280 (80) slot and 245 (45) slot.

I have a tube tester (Hickock 230) and it has a cap wire but it's manual does not have test settings for the 24A or 224 tubes so I will try the ohm meter method.