6U5/6G5 Tuning Eye Tube Questions

[old_coot88]

There's usually a resistor (half watt, typically one meg.) hidden inside the socket and it drifts 'waay up in value.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

There's usually a resistor (half watt, typically one meg.) hidden inside the socket and it drifts 'waay up in value.

I was thinking of that as a possibility, but how would of that 1 Meg 1/2 Watt Resistor in the Magnavox been still good yet after all these years and yet the one in my 1942 Vintage Wells Gardner Console be bad?

By the way the Tuning Eye tube Socket in the Wells Gardner is a replacement from a 1950s Silvertone Console that was the same vintage as the Magnavox Console was, because the original Tuning Eye Tube socket on the Wells Gardner Console had cloth wires that the insulation was splitting in several spots exposing bare wire and was causing the tuning eye tube to not work at all period. I think I even replaced the original 1 Meg 1/2 watt resistor in that replacement tuning eye tube socket with a carbon film resistor from radio shack and it still wasn't letting the tuning eye tube glow very brightly...