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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/21/economy/china-chip-material-exports-drop-intl-hnk

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Theres goes my cheap supply of diodes and transistors. We'll have to start stripping old boards again.

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You can get metric asstons of Ge diodes from the former Soviet republics.

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Good to know.

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I stocked up on Ge transistors and diodes some years ago. They made them well into the 90s in quantity.

There are a number of Ge diodes they made with Ge, all under the D9x family (Д9) - they're all roughly equivalent to 1N34A types, I've used all kinds in circuits requiring them. You may need a certain one for phase detectors, but rectifiers and audio detection just about any will work.

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That can't be the only supply. There's got to be some in nigrica that can be had.

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Guess who owns those mines?

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America has plenty of places to mine it, the EPA just makes it unprofitable

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There is so much open land in the US that nobody really lives by. Sure you might make some dickbag flat brim utah or nevada faggot unhappy because they can't crush the backcountry on their toyo 35's but hey fuck them. They can go drink bush somewhere else that evening.

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It's not Utahans or Nevadans preventing the mining. It's the EPA, BLM, and so on who own or legalate all the fricking land into being unminable.