[tom2]

Oh yea, I forgot about those old car radios that used slugs. Have not had one of those open in years. Decades. I set the slugs per the instructions for initial alignment as the set was off at the low end. Seems I had to turn them all the way down then to get it to track the bottom. Maybe I need to pad some capacitance across the coils or something but it seems to be OK now. It sure is not needed to save space, I don't think. Not a compact radio or chassis at all. Probably just some design engineers that wanted to show they were different. Presumably did not get them market share as I am unaware of much product ever coming from that company. Or references to them. I did install a fuse and a polarised plug in this thing for some measure of safety.