[bridkarl]

Bless you. I’ll go through all of this as suggested.

The resistors are on order as I saw they looked bad. I’ll replace them and neaten all this up. I redid the condensor block today so it seems fine.
I checked the wiring on the speaker today against an original factory chassis side by side on the bench. I now see what you meant about the difference in the cap grounds. Originally there was a cardboard sleeve on the positive side doing that. I didn’t realize that until I got my example chassis out.

This is extremely helpful. I plan to add this to my repair notes as standard operating procedure. This is why I have a wooden bench and lots of clip leads. I use my isolation transformer as the power switch in such instances.