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 <[email protected]> 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