It probably would have been easier to take it all apart, test each and every individual component and put it together as per the factory specifications.
Unfortunately the quality of a kit radio is reliant upon the proficiency of the builder.
From time to time, some genius comes along and decides that the engineer that designed the radio didn't know what they were doing and that they could improve upon the design.
Soon, tubes and voltages are substituted and nothing is OEM anymore.
After this, the blue prints for the original radio are no longer relevant and then you can't even go by the test points anymore.
I don't know what you primary occupation is - but chances are the 10 hours you wasted, working on this radio, could have been spent at work, earning a living, and you could have applied the income from the 10 hours of over time towards the purchase of a more modern transceiver.
Eventually you might get it working, but even then, you still will be left with a old kit radio that isn't worth what you put into it.

Don't you think that if it was worth something that the club never would have given you this radio in the first place?

And that is the problem with most hams! They hoard what they can find that works, they want everything for nothing and they want top dollar for their radio - regardless of it's age - when they go to get rid of it!