Transistor question

[Stankfut]

Hey all! Been away a while, and I just popped in with a quick question about transistors. I recently picked up a kimball organ, it blows fuses as soon as you turn it on. I don't really care if it works though, I got it to scavenge parts. It is late 60's vintage and has a truck load of discrete transistors in it. The problem is, they have no numbers on them. They are in a TO 92 type package, but they have colored stripes on them like resistors. I've searched the web but I can't find any info to decode the stripes. Any ideas?

[shooter]

Any ideas

not for decoding the colors, you can google up a simple transistor tester schematic and breadboard/solder it up.  the one I have was a kit for like $20.  that should help you divide them into pnp/npn.  I took all my old 60's - 70's ic's n transistors ground them up, found a *recipe* for extracting gold but the yield was like 1 lb gound up stuff to about 100grains gold, not a great return on investment

[PRR]

Late 1960s organ will be all silicon.

These are VERY CHEAP.

Go buy a 100-bag of whatever you need, it is less work than torching-out and testing old jellybeans.