Ron D'Eau Claire wrote on Monday, July 16, 2007 2:49 AM:
Back then we paid a huge penalty if we wanted a resistor within 5% or
(gasp!) 1% of the stated value. They were used only in a very few critical
places. Nowadays we routinely expect 1% tolerance from ordinary
off-the-shelf cheap resistors.
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You were lucky to be able to get resistors within 10% of the required value
:-) In 1946 my only sources were defunct domestic receivers, difficult to
find in VQ8, and many "liberated" resistors had to be trimmned to the
required value by filing a notch (or several) in the resistor's body. A dab
of nailpolish "borrowed" from my sister completed the job.
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
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