Well I found one big problem.....seems like the speaker connection had only one wire going to it
So I hooked a test clip up to the terminal that had the wire missing, and started poking around. I hit a spot and music came out of the speaker
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Although the volume is not as loud as I would like it to be, it works. Tuned in different stations, volume control works. I still got that capacitor out of circuit, pic below.....not sure if it affects volume....it attached to one of the coils in the set. Any idea what value it should be????