[R-390] Resistors (in areas other than the RF/IF deck

[Tisha Hayes]

For power supply type applications I often use 5 watt cermet (ceramic)
resistors. I not even like to leave 50 year old carbon comps across caps in
the power supply.

I can see that there are some people who are quite passionate over the
metal film vs. the rest of the world for resistor choices. By default I
will do a swap for a metal film because I have thousands of them in a
variety of wattages and %'s. If I run across one that ends up skewing a
tuned circuit I go "hmm, interesting, try to find a different resistor,
swap it again and move along".

Generally I am against shotgunning components with the exception of paper
caps, BBOD or leaky oil caps (the only good paper cap or BBOD is one that
you have sold on ebay to an audiophool. They can mix it with their quad
eutectic solder, cryo-treated tubes and oxygen free copper wires).

*Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA*