🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah yes, I remember getting a batch of transistors removed from faulty
equipment as a gift from my brother-in-law, who worked for the phone
company. Most of them were shorted, but a few were usable.  These were
the ones encased in glass and made good photodetectors if you scraped
off the black paint. Anyway I decided to send the shorted ones off in
style and discovered that if I applied 6.3 volts from a filament
heater it would make the transistor explode, case and all. The first
one to explode sent a sliver of glass flying that hit my upper eyelid
causing a surface wound. A little bit lower and I might not be typing
this in today. Didn't discourage me, I detonated the others from a
safe distance thereafter. We were holy terrors in those days, wonder
how EEs every survive...