[Boatanchors] Carbon Composites Go Bye Bye

[Mark K3MSB]

I have 2 or 3 medium rate shipping boxes full of them.  Being pretty color
blind I can't even cherry pick.  I've often thought of just letting them go
for shipping.

Mark K3MSB

On Wed, May 6, 2020, 8:48 AM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Mentioned this once, finally pulled the trigger on it.
> I have purged my 50-year junk-box of carbon-comp resistors,
> including NOS, save only obvious "antique" parts from
> the 20s and 30s and "premium grade" precisions.
> Over a gallon of them. 90%  have drifted, some of them
> substantially, and it just isn't worth my precious and
> rapidly-dwindling time to try and cherry-pick those still good.
> Will be using mostly the current "flame-proof" in
> future projects.   I'm curious if anyone else has considered
> "resistor retirement?"
>
> 73 Dave AB5S
>
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