I dont think it applies here BUT I have noticed some newbies expect
room lighting brightness from old sets. That comes in the '70s !
People watched these sets in a darkened room. Making it bright only
brings on troubles & stresses Hoz / HV stages.
On solid state tubes they work but are very unreliable. For a while when
a set came in with arcing filament windings I cut them out.
On a lot of sets it was a PIA to change them. Put in a SS rectifier saved
time & I didnt like doing filaments anyways. But in less than a year they
all were coming back with bad rects. So much for being lazy !
BTW if you cut open a "stick" rectifier it is made up of a series stack of
little disc shaped diodes.
73 Zeno
LFOD !