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Boy I never expected to cause so many ripples in the day? First let me thank all of you for your generous and kind words, as well as the warm welcome that all of you have extended to me. I thought that I did send to all what my original thread was. But in any case I will repeat it. While I was involved in changing out my finals (Radio Model Rci 2950, original version) I had not noticed that there was a Varactor diode that was glued to the front of the final, I mistanley thought that over several decades that it just got stuck to the front of the final from age? So I used a small flat head screwdriver and tried to pry it away from the final so that I could continue removing the final. . . . . Of course to my luck the Mv1y Varactor diode broke in half! I then proceeded to call myself somethings that I would prefer not to repeat here! But the worst part is no matter how many parts distributors that I checked with, none of them had any in stock. So I asked someone for a sub that I could use in place of it? And I was told that a 1n914 diode could be used, and another friend stated that I would be better off using an NTE 610 and that it was a better choice and is a spec. match. well what my intention is to replace the sc2312 original finals with the more powerful MRF 497. . . So I guess my question is which diode would be the better, also even though I have the old standard white compound thermal paste on hand, I felt that using what I have been using for many years would be better, which is Arctic Arctic Alumina which I have been using when ever I build a new pc Motherboard for use as the CPU heat sink, one thing for sure It ain't cheap (probably cause of it's ingredients !00% pure silver with added ceramic paste). In any case I thought that perhaps I could receive some cogent advice from some of you Gentlemen. Thank you in advance, Tom.

<blockquote data-quote="FULL_MEDIC" data-source="post: 646185" data-attributes="member: 53565">Boy I never expected to cause so many ripples in the day? First let me thank all of you for your generous and kind words, as well as the warm welcome that all of you have extended to me. I thought that I did send to all what my original thread was. But in any case I will repeat it. While I was involved in changing out my finals (Radio Model Rci 2950, original version) I had not noticed that there was a Varactor diode that was glued to the front of the final, I mistanley thought that over several decades that it just got stuck to the front of the final from age? So I used a small flat head screwdriver and tried to pry it away from the final so that I could continue removing the final. . . . . Of course to my luck the Mv1y Varactor diode broke in half! I then proceeded to call myself somethings that I would prefer not to repeat here! But the worst part is no matter how many parts distributors that I checked with, none of them had any in stock. So I asked someone for a sub that I could use in place of it? And I was told that a 1n914 diode could be used, and another friend stated that I would be better off using an NTE 610 and that it was a better choice and is a spec. match. well what my intention is to replace the sc2312 original finals with the more powerful MRF 497. . . So I guess my question is which diode would be the better, also even though I have the old standard white compound thermal paste on hand, I felt that using what I have been using for many years would be better, which is Arctic Arctic Alumina which I have been using when ever I build a new pc Motherboard for use as the CPU heat sink, one thing for sure It ain&#039;t cheap (probably cause of it&#039;s ingredients !00% pure silver with added ceramic paste). In any case I thought that perhaps I could receive some cogent advice from some of you Gentlemen. Thank you in advance, Tom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FULL_MEDIC, post: 646185, member: 53565"] Boy I never expected to cause so many ripples in the day? First let me thank all of you for your generous and kind words, as well as the warm welcome that all of you have extended to me. I thought that I did send to all what my original thread was. But in any case I will repeat it. While I was involved in changing out my finals (Radio Model Rci 2950, original version) I had not noticed that there was a Varactor diode that was glued to the front of the final, I mistanley thought that over several decades that it just got stuck to the front of the final from age? So I used a small flat head screwdriver and tried to pry it away from the final so that I could continue removing the final. . . . . Of course to my luck the Mv1y Varactor diode broke in half! I then proceeded to call myself somethings that I would prefer not to repeat here! But the worst part is no matter how many parts distributors that I checked with, none of them had any in stock. So I asked someone for a sub that I could use in place of it? And I was told that a 1n914 diode could be used, and another friend stated that I would be better off using an NTE 610 and that it was a better choice and is a spec. match. well what my intention is to replace the sc2312 original finals with the more powerful MRF 497. . . So I guess my question is which diode would be the better, also even though I have the old standard white compound thermal paste on hand, I felt that using what I have been using for many years would be better, which is [B]Arctic Arctic Alumina[/B] which I have been using when ever I build a new pc Motherboard for use as the CPU heat sink, one thing for sure [B]It ain't cheap [/B](probably cause of it's ingredients !00% pure silver with added ceramic paste). In any case I thought that perhaps I could receive some cogent advice from some of you Gentlemen. Thank you in advance, Tom. [/QUOTE]

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