On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:37:27 -0500, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article ,
says...



I never had any problem with the color codes in the old days, because I
dont recall ever running into any resistors less than 10 ohms on the old
tube gear. It's just these small value ones that are tricky.

For the standard resistors it was almost second nature for me to just
look at a resistor and call out the value. There were only a few values
used most of the time, and then the last band for the multiplier.
Especially when most were the 10 % type.



It's been nearly 40 years since I did any serious work on electronics.
But I still remembered the color codes, many of the common resistor
sizes, common cap sizes, and the numbers on the most used tubes. I dont
think I ever used a resistor below 10 ohms, except the wirewound types,
such as the old huge 8 ohm WW ones that I used to use for speaker loads.
I think they were rated at 100 watts. I saved a lot of that stuff, but
much of it has vanished over the years.