Yikes:

Wiring the tubes today was probably one of the worst things to do with cloth wire.   Boy, what a mistake.

I went to home depot to get some #8 gauge wire for ground bussing.  I’m going to cut the buss way down near the PT so I can ground the higher stuff like the B+ filter there, and preamp/input jacks on the right side closest to this photo:

The grounding scheme i would go after:

I will go after the grounding scheme once I get all of my parts later in the week [but i wont’ have my brother’s camera with me for this :( ].

Put in the tube sockets.

Like the knobs, I had to ream all of the holes on the chassis to be able to fit the choke bolts through.

I began my wiring:

For the filaments, I had to tape up one of the terminals because it was almost about to touch the chassis.  Better safe than sorry:

The hardest part: Negotiating the direction of those stiff green cloth wire:

The AC jacks.  I grounded both to the chassis.:

The speaker jack.   I used the green 4 ohm as this amp is specifically for the 2x12 configuration.

Hopefully more going on today.