Joe, would you mind sharing the program you used to create the simulation of the 555 circuit.Here is 90 seconds of what I suspect you will see in the working design.
Here are the same test points using an oscilloscope ...
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Thank youYou can get the TI edition of this program for free. It's TINA-TI.
http://www.ti.com/tool/tina-ti
Mine is TINA.
The video created with camstudio. I imported the Avi file to movie Maker to save it as an mp4 .... As well as trimming it down a little