Hi Terry
Many of the slimmer resistors in this radio were measured to get the value because the marking were eligible or missing, and the figures were rounded to the nearest 10. But in the days of these radios, values seemed to be normally in factors of 5, 10 or 50 or even 100.
They seemed much simpler and neater than the odd values you see today in the E12 or E24 range, which look so messy to me. However saying that once the standard colour code came into common use the resistors did get a lot more colourful with the advent of the E series values.
Mike
Many of the slimmer resistors in this radio were measured to get the value because the marking were eligible or missing, and the figures were rounded to the nearest 10. But in the days of these radios, values seemed to be normally in factors of 5, 10 or 50 or even 100.
They seemed much simpler and neater than the odd values you see today in the E12 or E24 range, which look so messy to me. However saying that once the standard colour code came into common use the resistors did get a lot more colourful with the advent of the E series values.
Mike
