twc5964
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Does the 'dead soldier" have a white coating inside the glass envelope instead of silver? If not, just try the pen knife trick to scrape off the oxidation on the pins, and the tube might work.
(The white coating indicates that the tube lost vacuum and is dead.)
Mordy thanks ! It's working now,however,I had to clean that stubborn tube for a solid 40 minutes and it finally worked. I took it out and put a very light coating of Deoxit on it and it stopped working again. Another 25 minutes scraping the pins then lightly tapping the tube with my finger and it's finally working. Guess this one wont have much of a life span . In fact I use a box cutter with a small thin blade to lightly scrape the pins but I've never had scrape the crap out of them like this one lol !