Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!berryh From: berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Homemade transistors, etc. Message-ID: <26306@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 1 Aug 90 04:53:19 GMT References: <25947@nigel.udel.EDU> <2273@kiwi.mpr.ca> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.EDU Reply-To: berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) Distribution: sci Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 10 You don't have to go above 950C in order to make decent devices. You can buy small (about a foot long and 6 inches high) quartz-tube furnaces that you can run with a variac for a couple of hundred dollars (and they'd have a zillion uses for the home lab). -- John Berryhill 143 King William, Newark DE 19711