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Nice work.
I've got the top half of one that is a parts donor for a table set with the same chassis I have on the back burner.
I'm surprised you spent money on a plug in 6X5 replacement! You can replace the 6X5 with a couple of cheap 1N4007 diodes, a terminal strip, and a few minutes on Google to get the 6X5 basing diagram and the schematic equivalency between tube and SS diodes....Just disconnect everything but the heater leads from the original tube (if you want the original to sit in it's socket and light), attach them to the terminal strip, add the diodes to the strip, test, and voila! A safe replacement that is undetectable from above chassis.
It is common knowledge among tube radio collectors that water and normal cleaning agents destroy Zenith black dials. I've heard face grease works well (if your face don't have any ask a teenager to loan you some).
I'd not have gone with LEDs for the dial lights (as a general rule I hate non-incandescent electric light) as the light they cast is a dead give away to the presence of that non-period correct part.
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