{"id":2413,"date":"2016-04-12T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2016-04-12T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T02:03:44","slug":"lathe-project-transistor-heatsinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2413","title":{"rendered":"Lathe Project &#8211; Transistor Heatsinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been working on a small HF amplifier project, using common TO-92 style transistors. I needed some heatsinking capability to keep the transistors at a reasonable temperature, so I whipped a couple small aluminum heatsinks up on the lathe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2414\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3917\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3917-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re really simple, starting with some ~1\/2&#8243; round bar, drilled out the middle, parted off the section, then drilled and tapped the set screw hole.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got a really good loose contact fit with a TO-92, and a little bit of thermal paste goes a long way in making them as effective as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been working on a small HF amplifier project, using common TO-92 style transistors. I needed some heatsinking capability to keep the transistors at a reasonable temperature, so I whipped a couple small aluminum heatsinks up on the lathe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}