Do you have any use for ESD mats? We're going to be changing out some here at my work and if you don't mind older ones that are a little beat up or might need to be cut down to fit you would be more than welcome to them?
Nah, part of the motivation of this is to purge a lot of the electronics shit I know I'll never use, break down a bunch of appliances etc. I have into parts and actually put some solder to stuff.
Have been goofing around making (some) progress. I ended up wiring this project twice after spending a few hours troubleshooting to figure out I had the damn socket wired backwards; ICs are certainly easier, you just rotate it 180 and keep plodding along.
I used the 0D3 voltage regulation tube, but substituted a 6LU8 Compactron tube in for the triode/pentode just because it's self contained. Still doing some research and trying to determine if I want to go to beefier tubes.
Bit windy of a video, skip to 4:40 or so to see it powered up and operational.