[Jayce]

All this talk led me to dig out my beater German radio, the Olympic Continental I spent a whopping $25 on when I decided to try out German sets. Finish is not great, cord has been taped because someone must have dragged it through something sharp, FM really should be aligned, and working on a basic rebuild. Still, it's the best working of all three of my German sets after the EMUD T7 went poof. I recall my friend's repairman not minding working on this or the EMUD as they aren't as cramped or complicated as a lot of German sets. For some reason, I never realized these used selenium rectifiers, but that makes sense for the time period. Transformer size I never really thought about as even the big RCA I mentioned in my original post, the 8-RF-13 doesn't exactly have a big transformer either. Voltage wise, well all our older radios have issue with that as our power in the US really is running too hot in my opinion and getting worse.