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How to open transistor

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Low-resolution video camera with a lot of opened germanium transistors used as light-sensitive elements

shaosSHAOS 04/18/2016 at 02:410 Comments

Soviet MP-transistors are relatively easy to open:

First of all you need pliers to hold a head of transistor like this to avoid damaging of semiconductor joints inside:

Then you need to squeeze the head to break it:

If it is not disconnected right away you can help it with screw driver:

After that it will look like this:

Now cover could be easily removed:

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