Thread: How do they paint the stripes on resistors, bumble bee caps, etc?
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Default How do they paint the stripes on resistors, bumble bee caps,etc?
On 9-9-2017 14:35, Taxed and Spent wrote:
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?

Carefully.
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