Ok, I fixed the broken TO-5 tranny leg. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I am a master of ghetto fab...
The two dead digits are confirmed deader than dead things, I'll buzz the trannys out but I suspect a case of terminal inside-the-potted-box-itis, which is to say the interface between the drivers and the nixies is that weird lamp box that has to do with the
Well this is strange, one of them is trying to light now... time to start buzzing out trannys and especially those carbon craposition resistors. Also "thou shalt check voltages"... hmmm...