In Reply to: Selenium Rectifier Lowdown posted by mark.korda@myfairpoint.net on January 20, 2017 at 07:43:49:
I agree with Uncle Mike,
They are nasty. If you smelled a failing one you would not want to again. If you want to keep the look, just gut the old selenium and embed a silicon diode inside the remains of the old nasty thing.
In the '50s when I was a kid I worked in a TV shop where we got paid 1/2 the labor charge on what we worked on. One of the techs would refuse the replace the seleniums which failed in TVs for fear of the toxicity. I guess I thought he was paranoid and my old Ford needed to be fed so I did them. Today I might also pass them by depending how hungry my ride and I were.
Phil
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