On Oct 31, 1:35*pm, Peter Parry wrote:
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?

no mfr does it on an ongoing basis. Substandard batches of goods are
hardly newsworthy though.


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

Its not hysterical, its a statement of fact.

microwave ovens (in either use or repair) in the UK since 1980 is,
according to the HSE, zero.

I didnt know they collected stats on it


NT