Jim Thompson said:
Yep, even had a guide pin to keep them from rotating while torquing
them up.
...Jim Thompson
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I've got an interesting story about one of those TO-36 transistors.
There was an old guy who lived in a trailer park who kept bugging my ham
buddy and I about building a circuit for him. He was half-baked, said
he wanted a metal detector circuit that would work at a certain
frequency, so he could find gold in the soil. He said that he needed a
transistor that would do so and so frequency, and he was trying to get
one from the electronics store. The guys at the store pulled a joke on
him, gave him a Motorola 2N278 that was all gold plated, so it looked
really cool. It was a burned out transistor from a car radio, and they
told him that that little stud on the bottom next to the threaded stud
had to go into a hole in a waveguide so it would put out RF.
My ham buddy and I were in high school, and we were always in need of
funding so even tho we knew this guy was a crackpot, we put up with him
to see if we could make some money. Well, he gave us that power
transistor and told us what he needed, and we looked at each other
incredulously, and knew that someone at the store was pulling a joke on
him. But they didn't charge him for the transistor so they weren't
doing anything illegal.
We tested the transistor, and tried to convince the old guy that this
was just a burned out power transistor, and that it wouldn't work as he
thought. But his mind was made up that he could get that transistor to
put out RF into a waveguide. Sorry to burst his bubble. but it was just
a useless, burned out 2N278.