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super-strong magnets which my grandkids really enjoy. But I've also
been
saving the transformers, diodes, fans, and capacitors, with the ultimate
goal of making a high-voltage power supply for a homebrew amplifier. So,
without any high-tech equipment, how might those diodes be tested?
--
--Myron A. Calhoun.


Those transformers had magnetic shunts that limited the current they can
deliver. There's been some discussion about using them in the ham press
over the past several years. I think the inagural issue of Communications
Quarterly covered it in some detail. You'll probably have to do some simple
mechanical mods to the power transformers.

Pete