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I opened both lytics, inide all was nice and wet, the ones of the same type fom Philco would be dry.
I will restuff them, not too difficult.
As for them shutting down in 1936, the AA5 was the reason. Superhet patent expired, lots of people built cheap ones, AK could not compete without going down in quality, he chose not to.
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