Also Sprach Rich Lockyer:
RL>Yup.  A lot of amp customizers do the same thing... they'll pot their 
RL>with black epoxy or sand the identifying marks off of the 
RL>components.  Any idiot can measure a resistor and you can 
RL>get an ECG meter for about $50 that'll measure a cap, but 
RL>it's difficult to ID a transistor, SCR, or chip.
Cheesy is as cheesy does.  Curve tracers are prob. pretty cheap these 
days, so you could maybe i.d. a bipolar xtor closely enough.  SCRs?  Do 
some of these pedals employ lamp dimmer ckts (only thing I ever used an 
SCR for--and that was in school)?  Chips.. why, there can't be any chips 
in an analog pedal / box..
I've got to get to one of the hamfests around here in January and get a 
good tube tester (another thing I was reminded of when stashing old text 
from this echo).
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