[Eliot Ness]

Have I ever mentioned how much I love rubber wire?

Yeah, there's nothing quite like the feeling you get when you gently try to move a wire and the insulation crumbles. And it wasn't just Philco that used the bad wire, I've had Atwater Kent and Zenith sets that were also guilty of switching over to the rubber crumblies. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but 70 years later we know the rest of the story.