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Tried to be good this year. Spent about $60, there's some cable that isn't shown but isn't interesting, it's just cable.

Tried to be good this year. Spent about $60, there's some cable that isn't shown but isn't interesting, it's just cable.

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The next time a time traveler comes back to our time because they need some ancient tech to fix some program running on a legacy piece of equipment in their time, you will be the first person they seek out.

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I know many people in my circle that have collections like that. We literally made so much of this stuff during WWII that we're still living on parts from that time period.

I bought a couple of NOS eye tubes not that long ago that had WWII contract numbers on them.

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Did you get the carbon composition resistors for time appropriate restorations or for actual use outside of a restore? My experience with carbon composition resistors of the vintage I see here is that they are practically random in their resistance values and are only good for analog uses with other parts of the same vintage. I'd go as far as saying carbon composition resistors have a value tolerance of +/- 70 to 100% and can't be trusted for much. Definitely nothing you should use in metrology equipment or R/C oscillators if you don't want massive drift and thermal variability.

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You must have had some shit-tier comp resistors. Sure, they drift with time, but a good one will be well within it's tolerance values. I checked a couple of these and they were within their indicated range.

These aren't so much for restorations, resistances in older gear can change a lot before the circuit becomes useless (capacitors usually are the issue here,) it's just that carbon comp resistors will burn open if there's an issue, so they're good for circuits where you need that sort of thing.

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Resistors identify with their color! If the color code shows 47 ohms, then it's 47 ohms! You science denier!

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Resistors identify with their color! If the color code shows 47 ohms, then it's 47 ohms! You science denier!

What if the color bands read as brown, black, black, brown? Are you going to trust that spic-nigger resistor?

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They're resistors of color. Come on man!

Do you have a "tran-sister"?

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Neat, what is it all

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Two Weston lab voltmeters, some carbon comp resistors, an antenna for my scanner, some wall warts, a weather radio, some old British radio magazines, and a really cool arched Weston ammeter.

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Good grab on the resistors

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They guy had a whole box of them, varying values. I just picked a couple that I thought could come in handy.

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You into 8bit computing platforms?

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Not so much into them anymore, I grew up with them so it's just a nostalgia and "Hey that's neat" thing.

The only 8-bit systems I have left is a CoCo 3 and a bunch of Kaypro machines.