I don't know anyone who doesn't have difficulty reading those
atrocious blue-bodied 1% resistors, me included/especially. That's why
the Mark 2 meter's kit notes includes this little caution:

"Note that the kit for the Mk.2 version
contains 1% resistors. It’s notoriously
difficult to correctly identify the colour
bands on these, so check each one’s
value with an ohmmeter before soldering
it to the board."


Bob



On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:03:41 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Bob Shuman wrote:
I too built the kit and had no problems. Took about an hour or two as I
recall and worked first time. My only complaint with the kit was the
poor color coding on the resistors was hard to read and required
constantly removing my glasses ... but then again my eyesight isn't what
it used to be either.

Don't think it's just you. Those metal film ones with the blue body are
near impossible to read. I just measured them - after eliminating the
obvious ones which were more than one and still on their paper links . ;-)