[Pithicus999]

Again, thanks for all the quick responses.

Well, I did think that all negative sides went to ground…

Questions:

1) Everything I’ve read says the (-) side always goes to ground. The only thing I can think of is that if electricity is flowing in the direction of the arrows, when it’s hooked to ground, it’s leaving the circuit via this 10 ufd cap—and therefore not working. Before I reverse that cap (because I don’t want to get killed or have a heart attack if it explodes) what explanation can you give to reassure me that it needs to be (+) to ground in this case and that I don’t need to update the beneficiary on my life insurance policy?

2) Are my other (3) caps ok if they have the (-) going to ground? More specifically on the schematics side of things, this is what I have:
a. # 53 & # 54 have their (-) arrow side going to # 55(Like DK already pointed out) which is the 10 ufd cap we are talking about. Are these two (# 53 & # 54 ) hooked up correctly?
b. # 40, now from what you said about the 10 ufd, I’m a bit worried about this one. On the schematic for # 40, it shows a 1 ufd cap hooked up to two resistors on one end (I’m thinking the positive end because I thought (-) negative side goes to ground) and hooked up to ground on the other end. According to what I’m hearing from you, it sounds like you are saying that the (+) positive end of this 1 ufd cap should go to ground instead of the way I have it????

Conelrad – With the speaker wires, I was able to confirm only two of them while replacing them. I followed the 2 wires into the plug as best I could, however the other two became dislodged when I removed the casing. By default, since the other two wires are the ‘opposite’ ends of the two that I identified, they may have to be switched…of course now…I’m not sure which 2 of the four are good, and which two are bad.

p.s. I have the schematics on PDF if anyone wants to see them.
p.s.s I’m still having fun 
Thanks.