[Milsurplus] Those carbon resistors...

[arc5 at ix.netcom.com]

I finally decided to pitch all my old carbon resistors- two large coffee cans.

Wasting a day chasing phantoms because I used a “NOS” carbon 47K which was actually 867k was not fun, since *time* is more valuable than

Any Earthly thing.

Confirmed to myself before consigning them to oblivion: about one in each ten-resistor lot was anywhere close to spec.

Buying new is a wise investment.

73 Dave AB5S

On 8/19/25, 2:05 AM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

Finally alerted into action by repeatedly reading about drifting carbon resistor values, i checked a bunch of them. Here are some egregious outliers i found. All are unused, new condition:

color bands 15k actual value 22k

" 100 " 35

" 220 " 1.3k

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