"Things look good so far..."

I got a thumbs up from my buddy Greg after I showed him my soldering efforts from yesterday. We took his multimeter and did a continuity test on the filter caps as follows: one probe of the multimeter on the negative end of the first blue 40uf cap in the board and the other probe at the negative end of the black 8uf cap. The 40uf, 16uf and 8uf filter caps are connected in parallel with the negative sides shown going to ground on the schematic. Continuity was good! Chassis and transformers have been ordered from Antique Electronic Supply and hope they arrive later this week...