I concur on the dangerous nature of potential installation of incorrectly rated or installed replacement components (not to mention fire hazards).
Also, I have replaced many blown transistors where there was absolutely no externally visible sign of any damage - that would be an example of getting lucky.
If you ever intend to do more stuff like this in the future, then you should invest in something better than what you have.
(you can get a digital multimeter for e.g. $25 at a local Radio Shack, or on sale for only $5 at a Harbor Freight, or else try Amazon)
Most all digital ones have a diode check function - analog ones are not easy and intuitive for that.
But maybe you first need to come up to speed on how a basic diode works - and how to detect a functioning simple diode using a meter - before testing a diode bridge?
I respectfully say this only because your responses seem to indicate you might not be aware of how to do this.
There are intro articles on the web about such basic methods for testing circuit components - have you tried looking into this yet?
Here is a good example:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/diodes/real-diode-characteristics
You might also want to look up "diode bridge" on WikiPedia.
Transistors are also able to be basically tested, but I'm out of time to go into that here ... again I believe there are already plenty of sources already on the web to introduce and explain much of this stuff!