...I'm stumped.
I've grown up around home made electronics. I've been able to decipher and put together small circuit designs since I can remember. I've even been able to figure out how to slightly modify some designs to make them work the way I want them too.
But I found a circuit design a few months ago that has me stumped. I have checked and rechecked the components, tried changing out some I thought may have been either bad or wrong, traced the path of each and every line several times to make sure they were installed correctly...
and the dang thing still doesn't work. Grr..

Here is a pic of the circuit:

The IC4017 chip usually makes each of the 10 LEDs light up in sequence 1-10, but only one LED at a time. The general idea behind this design is the added SCRs serve to hold the charge on the LED to make it stay lit until all are lit, and then they are supposed to all go out and the process start all over again.
Component list:
R2 and R3 are 10K ohm
all other Rs are 1K ohm
VR1 and VR2 are 47K ohm variable resistors
all caps are 10uF, 25V
All SCRs are BT169
IC1 is a 4017
LEDs are maker's choice
He does not give a suggestion for the T1, T2, and T3, but in reading, he specifically says T3 is a PNP transistor. Nothing specific is said about T1 or T2, but it can be implied by the schematic that they are similar. So all three are PNP transistors.
Here's what I built:

Closeup of the board:

When the battery is first attached, this is all that lights up:

When the IC is pulled out and shifter around a few times (but not fully seated back into the socket) like this:

I can get all ten of the graph LEDs to light up:

But the two independent LEDs on the lower right will only flash for a split second.
Also, the variable 47K ohm resistors have no effect on anything.
I know this is a jumbled mess. My hope was to create the chasing bar graph LED for an addition to my costume. But for the life of me, I cannot figure this out!
Any help would be appreciated.
daVID.