I share your feelings about throwing usable stuff out. However, in the case of of carbon resistors, it is often very wise. I inherited thousands of 1/2 and 1 watt resistors a few years ago. They were all at least 50 years old. 90% of them were way over their labeled values. Those that were in tolerance were often noisy. It wasn't worth the work of sorting and testing them.

  B.Gentry, KA2IVY

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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