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Well I powered it up in the dark and there was for sure no arcing. I only replaced a few components between when it was working and now, so I should be able to tell if any are hooked up wrong. I retested the 6l6 and the two 1b3's and found that one of the 1b3's was weak and the 6l6 has a screen grid short. The real question though, is did the 6l6, which appears to be the original, just happen to fail, or did I fry it trying to figure out what was wrong? Clearly it was working before if I was getting a real solid image. I will triple check my wiring tomorrow, but I really did very few repairs between the last powerup and this one, and only the resistor chain in the high voltage area, which is very straight forward. Either way it looks like I will have to get a new 6l6.

Edit: was checking the 6l6 again because the short would appear and dissapear. It seems when the 6l6 is in the tv, it gets super hot really fast. If I then take it out of the set and test it the short is there. If it has completely cooled the short doesn't really appear. Maybe it really was the tube that was bad, and by using it after 60 years it failed after an hour or so of test power ups.