What are these components?

[jpm83]

Here is the first one.


I salvaged these from a old phone.

Is this a "air capacitor"? It was in between of earth and antenna in old germanium tranny radio.


And this last one is it a tubular ceramic cap or carbon rod resistor?


Janne

EDIT: The two first pics are the same component in different angles. And yes I have dirty finger nails.

[ollie]

last one looks to me like a 3k26 resistor

[theehman]

Judging by the markings on top, the first looks to be 2 diodes in series.  The "air capacitor" is a neon bulb.

[TELEFUNKON]

The lowest is a ceramic cap.

[MikeH]

Yeah, the first part looks like a two-diode clipping package all in one.  Plug it into your Dist+ and see how it sounds.

[jpm83]

Thanks for answering.

The lowest is a ceramic cap.

I just measured the resistance of that thing and it was above 40 Mega ohms so you most probably are right.

Yeah, the first part looks like a two-diode clipping package all in one.  Plug it into your Dist+ and see how it sounds.

That was my first thought also. haven't tried it but maybe I will.

  The "air capacitor" is a neon bulb.

Do you know what it was doing in there and could it be used in a stompbox?

Janne

[pjwhite]

Here's something fun to try.  Hold one lead of that neon bulb between your fingers, shuffle across a carpet in a dark room and touch the other lead to the mounting screw on a wall mounted light switch or electrical outlet.  If the air is dry you should be able to light the bulb with static electricity.

[MikeH]

Here's something fun to try.  Hold one lead of that neon bulb between your fingers, shuffle across a carpet in a dark room and touch the other lead to the mounting screw on a wall mounted light switch or electrical outlet.  If the air is dry you should be able to light the bulb with static electricity.

I remember in physics when we'd make a chain across the room, and the person on one end would touch a Van de Graff generator and the person on the other would hold a florescent light bulb up to an electrical outlet on the other side of the room.  Freeeeeakyyyyy...

[ambulancevoice]

Here's something fun to try.  Hold one lead of that neon bulb between your fingers, shuffle across a carpet in a dark room and touch the other lead to the mounting screw on a wall mounted light switch or electrical outlet.  If the air is dry you should be able to light the bulb with static electricity.

I remember in physics when we'd make a chain across the room, and the person on one end would touch a Van de Graff generator and the person on the other would hold a florescent light bulb up to an electrical outlet on the other side of the room.  Freeeeeakyyyyy...

yeah, i did that two years ago
and i think the year before that too
me and some prissy girl hold hands (so she was like "ewwwwwww" you know...) and i had my hand of the VdeG gen, our hair went up and the teacher told one of us (me i think) to let go, and we got a shock
good fun

i think the year before we did the chain thing