[jerryhawthorne]

Nice if you could sign off on a thread with your first name. If your not planning on doing a lot of radios (we all say that at the first), a dim bulb will do nicely with a 60 watt light bulb. If it gets really bright at first fire up and does not dim down, unplug! I would still want to hear from you on resistance to ground from the 10mfd wire to the speaker. It shouldn't result in the smoking of the cap but could cause problems with the rectifier and power transformer.
I would not worry much about various resistances to the chassis from ground points, the measurements you indicated could be nothing more than a bad meter connection.
Jerry