[mikethedruid]

Yeah, Rich, I've run into a couple of Philcos with the rubber wiring. The worst, though, have been RCAs. I have a particular liking for the model 18T and have refurbished two already and have a third waiting. It is a very nice, large, 3 band set with a TRF stage. All rubber wiring. real pain. The RCA 5Q55 was not nearly as bad, but still bad enough. Of course, when they made these sets, I doubt that anyone ever considered that they would still be in use 70 years later, much less that they would be collected and cherished as antiques which people restored to good operating condition. They were merely consumer products to be used until they were no longer economical enough for the needed repair to be worth doing, and then replaced.