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Yes, the 1232 tube is glowing. I also replaced all tubes with tubes from the other Philco 40-180 (which is now working wonderfully), with no resultant impact on performance on this 40-180.

Assuming this still could just be an alignment issue, any idea why I can’t seem to pick up any signal from the signal generator? It didnt matter if at 580kc or 1400kc and I tried to find it, or tried either moving signal generator dial or radio dial, I couldn’t get any signal tone through the radio. Is it possible that the radio is so badly aligned that no signal tone shows up across the entire Broadcast band and I have to move the compensators 19 and 19A a SIGINIFICANT amount to find signal? I do get a couple stations showing up where they should be at 1060 and 1100, and much much weaker station signals showing up at 660 and 700. 

This all is further complicated by the fact that the original alignment instructions have compensators 19 and 19A reversed from what they should be.

I’m new at this, but I am used to only having to move compensators nominally before I find  maximum volume.

Thanks in advance for any help offered.