[Boatanchors] Old resistor values

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group,

I've been meaning to ask this for a week.  Most of the newer production 
carbon film (and/or maybe metal film) resistors that I've seen have dumbbell shape 
(like the 20's and 30's vintage carbon composition ones except that those were 
radial lead), micron sized lead wire, and of those that still have standard 
color bands, the colors are often pastel rather than true, and the band width 
is typically so narrow that at 61 and wearing tri-focals I often have trouble 
reading them.  Does anyone make square ended resistors with decent width color 
bands in the correct colors?  So that valid repairs aren't automatically 
suspected by the next person to look at the set of being modifications?

Robert Downs - Houston
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