Dave, what precisely do you mean, the solder was "molded" over the contact? YES that would have made great photos. Sabotage comes to mind, yes. Any still in the factory at war end would have been completed to spec by the new owners, i think, as the Torn.E.b. was used by other countries postwar. As i wrote before, Carrie Ten Boom's book talks about sabotage in an aircraft radio factory. I read that a good proportion of artillery ammunition late war was defective, failed to detonate.

The decrease in the use of internal alu shieding; the blank over the meter cutout in many examples; the pot metal one i had that disintegrated when i tried to pull the chassis; and the 2 different control shaft diameters between two examples. Also let me comment that their 'troop entertainment radios' had the occupied cities of their Empire marked on the dial, like they were so sure Smolensk and Minsk would be theirs forever. Pretty arrogant bunch, they were / are. But a whole lot of the Reich's "employees" were, you could say were, not motivated by the same insane dream.