Transistor Pinout?

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I am building a DA Fuzz Face clone with 2 1t308b transistors (PNP Germanium). I'm having trouble finding accurate information about determining the collector and emitter. There is a red dot on the top, and I had read that that would be the collector, but then I read somewhere else that that is reversed on PNP's and it would actually be the emitter? Does anyone know which is correct? And could I have fried the transistors if I wired them in backwards and hooked up the battery?

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Hello
For this transistor Collector is the midle leg ,the body basicly.
Red dot is Emiter for sure.

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Thank you for the help! I didn't update but actually found it online. The specs were in Russian, but someone suggested using Google Translate to figure out which was which. Finally got it, although unfortunately I fried them both :( . I picked up some cheap PNP Silicon transistors at Radio Shack and used them to get the circuit working, and have some AC128's on the way :D .

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