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It settled in to a steady 940 ohms. And when you say "It must be set to nearly fully closed" You are talking about the Vert Lin pot? If so, it made no difference to the reading, no matter where I set the pot.
interesting, that pin is supposed to be connected to the pot, so I assumed it should have done something. See if you can trace the pot to a tube pin.