Parts needed: are TCE/RCA SK-series transistors still around?

[Noel Page]

  I cannot help with SK parts
BUT
This web address lists generic cross references to EGC parts.
http://www.flippers.com/X-Ref-ECG.html

Info. supplied without warranty !
Noel Page

John Farrington wrote:

> For a Heathkit I need a NPN/PNP complimentary transistor pair:
>
> 417-926 & 417-956, which are MPSU06 and MPSU56, which cross to a
> NTE-188 & NTE-189 pair, or a NTE-49 & NTE-50 pair.
>
> The problem is that NTE has discontinued the NTE-188 and NTE-49, so
> half of those complimentary pairs are no longer available. Can
> anyone suggest a currently produced substitute NPN/PNP pair?
>
> I haven't looked for RCA's SK series for a while;  now it seems that
> while I was asleep the SK line of replacement components was acquired
> by Thomson Consumer Electronics, but the only information I can find
> is a news item saying:
>
> "TCE has done very little with the SK line since acquiring it, except
>  for renaming it the TCE SK Series.  They have never even established
>  a website, nor have they produced a recent cross reference book."
>
> Does anyone know if there are online distributors for the SK series,
> or parts houses in the Houston-Dallas TX area? The RCA parts
> distributor that was here for nearly 50 years has closed, as has the
> best independent parts store. I get the feeling that soon there won't
> be any individual components available, and would-be tinkerers will
> be regarded with suspicion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John   KE5ZB
>
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