[Amps] Freescale

[Alek Petkovic]

Wow! Now I've heard it all. That's amazing stuff.

I guess need always finds a way.to get the job done.

73 from the other side of the South Pole. (short path)
Alek. VK6APK


On 4/01/2014 8:26 AM, Manfred Mornhinweg wrote:
> Alek,
>
>> With valves, you can have them rebuilt. Ain't seen anybody that can 
>> get the smoke back into transistors.
>
> Then we definitely have to meet some day!
>
> When I was young, had better eyes, and was as poor as a church mouse, 
> I begged for burned out RF transistors and repaired some of them. Very 
> often only the bonding wires melt, and the transistor itself is still 
> good! It's a matter of cracking open the case, and reattaching those 
> wires. Often sufficient wire length is left that it's possible to 
> solder bridges over them! When the bonding wires are gold, as is the 
> case with many RF transistors, it's really easy to solder them.
>
> But some transistors have such long bonding wires, that they can be
> twisted back together!
>
> I wouldn't use such a repaired transistor on a space mission to Mars, 
> but for hamming it can be quite OK!
>
> Manfred
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