I finally applied power to this thing, slowly with a variac, with the horizontal and damper tubes pulled as suggested, and NO SMOKE or blown fuses. Every tube had the heaters going too, which I know doesn't mean they're all good, but at least they all still had vacuum. There was a slight smell of something hot, but everything is covered in dust, and this stuff is hot. It wasn't a burning smell and I actually had expected it to smell even more.

One thing I did find though. The Horizontal tube's base was slightly loose. Since I didn't put it in I don't know if it even will take the heater power. Short of disconnecting all but the heater leads, is there any way to test it? Both Angela and my local guy have the 6BG6G so maybe I should pick one up although it would be helpful if I could find out what other tubes I may need.

I wish the speaker transformer wasn't mounted on the speaker so I could test that out on my bench. I suppose I could bring the chassis upstairs to the cabinet since I'm close to needing to do that anyway. I was going to test some voltages first.

Also, I checked resistance and some of them were right on the mark, while others were off by some, and still others were so far off I checked the schematic, only to find that the connections did not match. Since these were the original wiring should I assume that my chassis has some revisions and just go with it? The tubes were different too, but this was documented as a later version. My guess is that they were constantly changing the circuit to take care of problems. (If every version of every computer program I ever worked on was documented I'd still be working on an IBM 360)