[Milsurplus] Old carbon resistors: toss or keep ?

[kgordon2006]

Toss them.Ken W7EKBSent via the Samsung Galaxy S21 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> Date: 6/19/25  13:08  (GMT-08:00) To: PSARA Radio <psarapresident at pugetsoundantiqueradio.com>, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net Cc: NWVRS Group <nwvrs at googlegroups.com> Subject: [Milsurplus] Old carbon resistors: toss or keep ? 

I acquired from some estate sales last year a few hundreds of the old carbon resistors. I have read that these drift quite a bit over the years. Plus the % tolerance is so much
 poorer
than the current precision. I wonder, should i just ditch all these, use the newer film, close tolerance resistors ? Resistors are not a high cost item, and i truthfully, rarely
 have use for
replacements.  Should i just ditch these ? ( I am a person who hates to throw out anything still useful. )
-Hue Miller




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