On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:39:55 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

Components are so tiny these days that I often have difficulty telling
orange from red from brown in the tiny bands. And then you have 1% and
2%
tolerance resistors so you have to work out which end to start. I often
end up using a multimeter. Life was a lot easier when resistors were big
chunky things with clearly visible bands, or the old "body tip and dot"
ones.

Yes, I have the same problem. I use a jeweller's loupe quite a lot; I can
hold it in my eye for a long time due to practice with the monocle!

I too use a multimeter, also for small value capacitors, because some of
the markings are ambiguous.

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