Eating Up Voltage Regulators

[chap52]

Don't know if it matters but did you polarize the regulators when you installed them? All I know is as a teenage master shade tree mechanic almost 60 years ago we were told to always to take a small wire and just tap it on the two outer connections of a new regulator to "polarize" it. Must have worked because we never saw any polar bears in our neighborhood. (sorry) Chap