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Old 7th Aug 2019, 1:38 pm   #21
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I probably mentioned this before but when I worked for a company servicing Phillips dictation gear we had those Germaniums regularly break down. We discovered it was always a "base to case" short and I think we ended up placing an insulating washer between the case and the chassis, or something like that.

With the Tandberg machines of my own or a customer's I've used the same idea, this time cutting the copper heatsink plate vertically down the centre, separating each transistor's case from the other while still maintaining the heatsinking. It was a resignation to the likelihood the "whiskers" would only reform at some stage, apart from the scarcity of such Germaniums new these days.
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Old 7th Aug 2019, 3:34 pm   #22
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I probably mentioned this before but when I worked for a company servicing Phillips dictation gear we had those Germaniums regularly break down. We discovered it was always a "base to case" short and I think we ended up placing an insulating washer between the case and the chassis, or something like that.

I wonder if that's because the base in these transistors is actually a large (-ish) slab of germanium, compared to the other electrodes which are small 'lumps' on the base substrate, so the likelyhood of a 'base to case' short is much higher than for the other two electrodes.
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Old 8th Aug 2019, 8:36 am   #23
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Had the amp working for about 10 seconds!!!! then silence again...
I'll look for a complete new set of transistors for it....
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Old 8th Aug 2019, 12:32 pm   #24
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I wonder if that's because the base in these transistors is actually a large (-ish) slab of germanium, compared to the other electrodes which are small 'lumps' on the base substrate, so the likelyhood of a 'base to case' short is much higher than for the other two electrodes.
Thanks Ricard, interesting and plausible idea.
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Old 6th Oct 2019, 11:48 am   #25
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I've put this machine away as after changing all the transistors and electrolitic caps the channel 2 amp is still completely silent .. just touching the imput spade connector doesn't produce any hum .. it still requires another r/pb head as i'm swapping it out of my Series 15 to test it.
The channel 2 record/ play switch does not make the recording indicator light upand there are many signs that this machine has been worked on before...
Ill come back to it later on.....
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