[tom2]

I was just reading/flipping thru some old collectors mags and they had something in there about mfr. costs of radios per 1000 or the like. Some mfr. was using slug tuning because it cost 90 some cents for a tuning cap in volume at the time and half that for inductor tuning of some sort. This is for home not auto and I think it was prewar 30s too. I would think that the labor costs to set up and fiddle with those tuning slug arrays, as well as making them would be more expensive than mass produced universal type tuning caps, but assumptions can be wrong I guess. Dang. I keep reflexivly clicking "save" instead of "submit" when I finish a posting, then I have to go thru and figure out how to submit the draft again! Well websites vary in how they work. Gotta think.