[EdHolland]

There's a U-2 speaker on ebay right now. At $100 +$62 shipping, I shall be giving my repair every chance to prove satisfactory 

Anyway, this brings things more-or-less up to date on the restoration activities of the last year. The cabinet is also looking nice, although there are still some trim pieces to glue, and replacement grille cloth needed. 

In summary, work done so far includes:

Clean up of chassis
Replacement of frayed wiring
Rewind of interstage transformer
Rewind & repair of shadow meter
Repair of speaker
Replacement of all paper and electrolytic caps
Recap of tone control
Replaced volume control/switch

Remaining tasks include: 

Rewind of output transformer - almost complete, just the 60 turn secondary to do.
Replace speaker/HT connecting cord wires
Complete assembly and sundry wiring e.g. shadow meter, dial bulbs etc.

..And then we'll be on to bench testing. I've tested a few benches, so we should be OK there