What you see above is the most recent fruit of these efforts. The variable inductor is made up of the green coil of wire with a threaded bolt in the core. Turning that bolt moves the tip in or out ...
The coil had three sections, so [tsbrownie] first estimated the inductance of each section and sourced some surface-mount inductors that ... one of those nice old variable caps.
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