Operative word being "CHEAPER".

Which is what I am getting to with the comment "kicking the can down the road".

Being that this is a hobby for me, there are very few things that I purchase in sufficient quantities that even a 100% premium (and it is nowhere near that for resistors) is not worth the extra cost for the avoidance of trouble. I just purchased a lot of electrolytic capacitors to go into tube equipment - the premium for 105 C High-Hours caps vs. standard caps came to about 5% across 20 caps in total.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA