[BenWA]

I'm sorry, hot/neg is what I meant. As you might have guessed, I have mostly worked with DC power (12V) so I was mixing up the terms. So is my "positive" on the diagram basically equal to "hot"?

Mine has what appears to be a newer, cloth covered reproduction AC cable with a non-polarized reproduction plug end. The cable is in too good condition to be the original. Same with the plug end. Since both items can be readily purchased online, I suspect they are modern.

I also suspect the radio restoration was done in the past 5-10 years. They just had no clue what the heck to do for the record player it seems and started playing guessing games.. then gave up. Maybe someone was being paid to do the work and the customer decided they put enough money into it and told the restorer to quit at having the radio working.

Oh... and are the caps in the block 0.01 uf, correct? The writing is hard to make out on the schematic.

Wading through various capacitors... what would technically be "correct". I found one saying 250V max was only for DC, with 125V AC being the max. Assuming my AC power from the wall stays below 125V, I'd be ok. But what about getting a larger voltage max cap just for safety? What would be the next step up.. without a large price jump?