Well, my "by Christmas" goal will not come to pass.
I finally plugged it in. First with a 100watt bulb in the line for about one hour. Everything seemed OK. The light slowly dimmed, so I knew my SUPER SHORT days were over. The bad thing about the bulb method is that the voltage is so reduced that the DC never gets pumping enough (or at all?) to slow charge and reform the paper caps. I think it works this way.
Needless to say after a couple minutes of operation with no sound or raster I heard a sizzle
and quickly disconnected the line.
Low and behold one of those stupid black stripped paper caps had gotten hot. A .018mfd 1000v damper filter. I unsoldered one end of the thing and it measured like .15mfd.
So until I get my hands on the 7 or 8 1000v caps that I will purchase to cover everything needed I am at a standstill. I have enough orange drops to keep me busy with the soldering iron. Just no 1000v jobs.
I feel good even though I still have a dead set. I started off with something that could not safely even be plugged in. I may not be as far away from success as it seems. This cap is probably why I never got a raster. Then I can look into getting sound. I didnt expect a much better result. I just wanted to make sure that there were no screw ups with the power supply re-vamp.