NEAT!!!! I like to see stuff like that. Brings to mind an episode of Dragnet (radio version) where they had a sting operation to catch crooked TV repairmen. They did the sting the same way they do these days with car mechanics; they had ordinary housewives (of LAPD officers
) call a TV repairman, and the TV was rigged with something like a loose fuse, or the like... The TV they rigged was a Kaye-Halbert console (so stated in the dialogue!!!!), and they put a dud 5U4 in it to make it "dead" and caught all kinds of repairmen trying to sell all sorts of unneeded repairs. What was really interesting about that Dragnet episode was that it happened to be a Kaye-Halbert set, and they were so technically correct about the TV and the 5U4, etc... (Just to clear the record, Kaye-Halbert used a pair of 5Y3s in the 1952 chassis lineup, but a single 5U4 in the 1949-51, and '53-'55)
Charles