Here what I've fixed:
The very first thing the amp tech noticed was my ground connection at the power transformer - The weren't connected so I actually had no ground.
Then as we were looking he noticed one electro cap that was in backwards - it was a small one; not one of the large ones that can explode. As we were talking I noticed another small one that was backwards.
He also found a couple of weak solder joints and two of them he was able to disconnect with a tug. He recommended that I put a little more heat and solder on a couple of places.
Overall, he said for a first time build it looked pretty good at least as far as soldering and running the wire. He wants to hear it after its finished. Since it is near tax time, I probably won't buy the cabinet until after April 16. - I hope in mid May to order it.
Here are the pics.
In each of these first two pics there is a black capacitor. On these caps at one end there is a small + sign. Those + signs need to be towards the bottom of the board. If you look at some earlier pics I posted you can see two big one on the far left of the board and those + are a LOT easier to see.
In this pic you can see the ground connection inbetween all of the wires. It is fastened to one corner of the power transformer. I made the ground connections to each of the lugs so they are all ground together, but I didn't make a connection from those lugs to the actual ground. There is a small wire in there, but it's hard to see unless you know what you're looking for.
I'm ready to fire her up. I'll take one (or 2) last looks and put the tube in and power her up!
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