No criticism, but a couple of thoughts:

First, I very much doubt that the original resistors were carbon composition. Unless the values were extremely high, they were probably wire wound.

Second, you can solder a resistor – or other component – without altering its value by gripping the lead with a hemostat next to the body of the part.

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