[ARC5] Tube Testing

[Wayne Eleazer]

Speaking of test equipment, I have signal generators out the whazoo (some of which actually work), more multimeters than I probably could even locate in a day's worth of searching, two VTVM's, a digital freq counter, and 5 Oscopes of varying sophistication.  

But I do not have a tube tester, other than by swapping them out in a radio and noting the effects.

Aside from checking the filaments with a multimeter, are there any simple tests that can determine the likelihood of a tube being good or bad?  I have some of the older ARRL handbooks with the tube data in the back as well a RCA Receiving Tube handbook. I even have an original TV-7 test data book (the one made with the extra stiff cardboard like pages if anyone needs it).  So I do not lack for basic data.  

So if I wanted to take a chassis and put a bunch of different tube sockets in it and wire up a simple tester of some kind, using a multimeter or scope readout, how would I do that? 

Thanks,

Wayne
WB5WSV