Or if you didn't want to pay for a repairman, you'd pull out a couple of the most suspect tubes and take them down to the local drugstore, where you could plug them into a vacuum tube testing machine. If you found a tube with poor readings, you could buy a replacement there. (I hope you don't mind my reminiscing!)

My carpenter father never dabbled in electrical matters, my younger brother would go into that field many years later but transistors came by the time we entered high school.  Mr Harrison and his incredible box of vacuum tubes always came to the rescue and my dad would often build things or offer things to him in exchange.

Back in the day, if a TV lost reception and adjusting the antenna did not work, a TV repairman would come and often replace a large worn out vacuum tube.

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