"John Larkin" wrote in message
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Tell me about it. I tried some pins to see if they would snap, and
they turn out to have incredibly mushy reverse recovery, Slop Recovery
Diodes.

I've always been led to believe that this wasn't a bug, but a feature.
Really! (E.g., you can often get away with one diode when you'd otherwise
need two if the things actually recovered quickly...)