Oh man! Yeah, I’ve gone thru that too. Although, I usually docket all my clipping diodes, so I just had to reverse them.lol A cheap, lil components tester off of the Bay of E can help out a lot with stuff like that. The only thing those testers have given me trouble with are jfets. For some reason they have a hard time knowing what they are.I think I have everything, minus the two 1N747a's.
I bout screwed the pooch on the two Germanium diodes. I ordered Red Band Soviet Diodes on the recommendation of another poster, and just happened to watch a video last night explaining Soviet diode bands are usually ANODE instead of Cathode... Glad I saw that before I installed them
