In article ,
gareth evans wrote:
I remember in the late 1960s, I owned one, only, germanium transistor
which I did not dare solder for fear of causing further migration
of semiconductors into a resistor!

I still have a soldering heatsink I made - a small crock clip with thick
copper wire soldered into the jaws

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*When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds*

Dave Plowman London SW
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