RE: Electric retracts?
I too had a set of Giezendanners in an old Bootlegger I had bought from Steve Stricker. They were OK and I never had any big issues with them (never had a hang-up problem). Only negative was that sometimes they glitched the radio while they were operating (pre-PCM days). Never huge glitches, just a minor few bumps. This could probably be cured easily with capacitors.