Originally Posted by WalterMitty
Does anybody remember going down to the grocery store (Brannons?) with all the tubes out of the TV set and using their tube checker to figure out which vacuum tube was bad so you could get a new one and get the TV going again?
YES!!! Only we went to local Western Auto store.......extremely annoying when all the tubes tested "good" and the TV still wouldn't work....tube testing was the first/easiest diognostic step. I think I still have a RCA tube conversion book somewhere. Still have a few vacuum tubes.