On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:25:50 -0700 (PDT), NT
wrote:

On Oct 30, 11:03*pm, Peter Parry wrote:

1. discharge resistors do fail

Indeed, every few hundred years.

2. components without such resistors get substituted during mfr now
and then

Do they? Can you name a manufacturer who does this?

3. ditto during repair

As it is rather difficult to buy such a capacitor without an integral
drain resistor that seems somewhat improbable.

4. there are at times individuals involved in all stages of manufature
and repair who couldnt care less about safety resistors

That's why they are built into the capacitor casing rather than
fitted externally.

As for your rather hysterical claim that "If I relied on this dense
advice I'd be long dead." the number of people killed by domestic
microwave ovens (in either use or repair) in the UK since 1980 is,
according to the HSE, zero.