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I recently picked up a 38-9 at a local auction. The cab is in real good shape, and the chassis is not too bad. The only work done that I can see was the replacement of the electrolytics years ago, and a mod to the socket of the 6K7G tube socket.

This chassis has square tube shields (3) which fit over a raised lip riveted to the tube socket (on top). The raised lip for the shield of the 6K7 was broken off at some point and is missing, as is the square tube shield for this tube.

What someone did in the past was to put in a metal tube (6K7G) and soldered a ground conection under the chassis directly to pin 1 of the tube. (Pin 1 is the metal). They did this because this tube socket does not have a pin at 1 and 6.

Would anyone have a parts chassis that has one of these octal sockets that the tube shield metal could be removed from? What other solution can someone suggest. I don't like the idea of soldering to a tube pin under the chassis.