More B.S. I've soldered diodes back to back not to get a transistor but to get a bridge rectifier. The diodes were not destroyed. The bridge rectifier worked.
Left and right junctions, since you seem to have problems.
More B.S. I've soldered diodes back to back not to get a transistor but to get a bridge rectifier. The diodes were not destroyed. The bridge rectifier worked.
Left and right junctions, since you seem to have problems.
Which is, of course, totally irrelevant, since you did not pin their junctions together to get the tunneling effect of the PN pair regulating the net output. Had you attempted to do so with your soldering iron, you would have, of course, melted the containers.