Thread: How do they paint the stripes on resistors, bumble bee caps, etc?
View Single Post
  #6   Report Post  
Posted to sci.electronics.repair,sci.electronics.components
Taxed and Spent Taxed and Spent is offline
external usenet poster
  
Posts: 534
Default How do they paint the stripes on resistors, bumble bee caps, etc?
On 9/9/2017 5:21 AM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
wrote:
I've always wondered how they paint on the colored stripes. I put "how
do they paint the stripes on resistors" on google, but all I got was
links explaining how to READ color codes.

Has anyone ever heard anything about this process?

Isn't it obvious? Early resistors were hand painted, then they
developed machines for the job.





how did they paint the machines?
Reply With QuoteReply With Quote