[Captainclock]

Just so everyone knows it was actually someone on here that told me that the "GT" version of the 6X5 tube was actually a good tube to use in such circuits because they were less suseptible to shorting than the 6X5G was, and I actually have an old 1940s Philco Console that uses a 6X5GT as a rectifier and although I haven't had a chance to power it up yet because it had a mouse nest in it and the mice chewed through some of the wiring in the radio, I'm apted to believe that what that person said about the 6X5GT is true. By the way, from what I heard from this person is that there were two different grid arrangements for the 6X5 tube and the 6X5G tube and some of the early 6X5GTs used an "X" shaped grid (think of the later 6X4 or the 6CA4 which were the later replacements of the 6X5 tube), but then later on once tube manufacturers realized the fatal flaw of the 6X5 tube they redesigned the tube (the 6X5GT as the 6X5Gs were no longer being made at that time) so that it had inline grids instead of "X" Shaped Grids which made the tubes more reliable, at least until the 6X4 and the 6CA4 came out to replace the 6X5GT tube.