[Milsurplus] Cheap 1% carbon resistors?

[antqradio at juno.com]

One percent carbon resistors?  Yea, until you solder them in the circuit
or go through a heat and cool cycle!

An engineering technician I once worked with told me the story of
spending the better part of a day making up meter shunts for a series of
rack mounted panel meters, using carbon resistors.  When they were
finally soldered in, every meter was out of calibration!  Carbon
resistors have a terrible temperature sensitivity.  Not worth the effort,
in my opinion.

I have a sack of NOS body, end and dot resistors, been sitting unsoldered
for about 60 years.  Any bets on how many are out of the 20% tolerance? 
8^)!
Jim

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:52:51 -0400 "jerry" <w3cde at bellsouth.net> writes:
> I used a triangle file.  It worked every time... 1% resistors at the 
> 20%
> price 8-)
> 
> Jerry
> W3CDE