Re: Resistor Colour-code Calculator

Left to right. (Yes I know, I know). Bring back "Body-Tip-Spot" is what I say.

FSVO rotsiser

(I think I've just molished a new jbeq)

Oy! I don't look like a capacitor, although I am becoming a little rounder than I was.

Opps. ye shed door is ajar. Wrong planet!

Pigs for the end breaking off the swiss-roll though, if you pulled on the lead when soldering.

What was the name for these? Polyethylene foil and a cement dip AFAIR, but they had a name too?

Are we talking abiut the same thing? These were rectangular, flattish, with rounded edges (typically about a cm per side, 2-3mm thick, wires from two of the bottom corners, horizontal stripes. Polyester ISTR.

On 17 Oct 2009 23:13:34 GMT, Bob Eager had this to say:

They were modern things. Proper condensers (mica) were maybe 1" x 3/4" x 1/16" and dipped in brown wax, or encased in brown bakelite (engraved with the value) with large flat tags sticking out of the ends.

Or Hunts/TCC paper ones in an aluminium tube with rubber seals in the ends.

Then of course there were wet electrolytics that had to be kept upright...

Mylar - I think those were mylar film. Or possibly ceramics. Mullard made em IIRC.

Yep, seen (and mostly used) all of those too. But not as pretty...

That is *OLD* .

Really ? Never new that. That could explain one or two things ...

Presumably one only ever encountered them hard mounted on (pre-war) wireless set chassis.

Derek.

Oh, so that's what the "virginity" was all about. I learned 6-7-8-9 as "...But Violet Grey's Willing."

Sorry - been on the PPs and BAs.

Mullard c280 Polyesters Tropical fish

That's the ones! They *were* polyester after all!

You could have left them charged up...

We were taught it a little bit different. I'm sure it was 'rape' instead of 'root', and the last four words were 'but virgins go without'.

I don't remember it being 'bad' either. But can't think what it was.

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

But I chose to live, instead

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John Whitworth" saying something like:

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Without. Throwing sensitivity to the wind, the other version substituted 'Black' for 'Bad'. I've no doubt there's a perfectly acceptable but dead boring version out there.