[GaryM]

Since I am among others who all struggled through their first restoration, I will sheepishly admit that I mistook the secondary lead for a grounding wire. There is a bare wire coming out the bottom of the transformer and from the angle I've been looking at this chassis for the past few weeks, it looked like it was the same bare wire which is spot welded to the transformer case. I unbolted the transformer to take a closer look at the underside and realized I was actually seeing both secondary leads. Ugh. Wouldn't have expected to see bare wires for transformer outputs.

So I properly connected the secondary lead to the voice coil wire and I have barely audible static and only at the highest volume setting. Progress but I would appreciate any suggestions on getting normal volume levels.

Gary