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Sometimes you have to let a tube sit for a few hours at 8 volts to wake it up.
If your tester is one of the models with a safe rejuvenation feature that might help too.
I have gotten decent pictures from monochrome tubes that test fairly weak so all is not lost even if they are weak.
Dead rat smell goes away after awhile. We had one die inside the walls of a house my family used to own it stunk in that room for a while but was gone in a less than a month. Leave the worse ones outside for a couple of months beneath one of those tailgating/flea-market wall-less tents, to keep the rain off it, and the smell should go away.
One year squirrels had got into the family cabin many months prior, they caused a ton of damage knocking things over and chewing everything in sight, but aside from that damage and their pelts and bones nothing was left of them. Once a critter is done rotting and has been completely dry for long enough the things needed for micro-organisms to subsist run out and it becomes more a less a sterile pile of dust and bones.
Sorry if what I wrote bothered anyone with a weak constitution.
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