• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

Just need to make sure.

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OK I am way new to tubes so I just want to make sure I am not wrong. Looking at the schematic for pins 1, 2, 5, & 6, and comparing them to the pic of the socket, is not 1 & 2 numbered wrong, and need to swapped, 1 on the bottom, 2 to the left, or am I completely confused.
 

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The schematic is just a representation and can be drawn as the draughts-person desires, as long as pin1 is the control grid, and pin 2 is the cathode, that's all that matters. It could even be drawn mirror-image.
The socket or base layout is a physical thing, so has to relate to the pysical nature of the object, that can't be drawn any differently.

Have a look at the 6aq6 datasheet on this page for comparison. You will se that the schematic symbol is drawn quite differently (which is allowed), but the socket/base is the same.
 
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