On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:31:29 -0600, Lord Valve
wrote:

Martin Riddle wrote:

Most resistors are metal film nowadays, carbon comps are hard to come
by.

...

Nah, all the major parts houses in the USA carry
'em...Mouser, Digi-Key, etc. Hell, you can even
get 'em as SMDs.

LV

"Most" (by far) by quantity used, but even by types offered, fewer
than 3% of the resistor part numbers that Digikey has in stock are
carbon comp.