resistors going cheap - Page 1
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author: siliconmix
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2012, 10:44:31 pm
content: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Resistor-Pack-assorted-Wholesale-Lot-1-3-MILLION-unused-Leaded-Resistors-/120905308805?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item1c26849a85#ht_873wt_1044

author: Mint.
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timestamp: May 03, 2012, 09:13:04 am
content: Amazing! A lifetime supply of resistors

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 03, 2012, 09:29:12 am
content: Problem? It's all stock from an equipment manufacturer so if you buy it you will drown in all the values you never use and never have the ones you want.

author: Short Circuit
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 03, 2012, 10:22:29 am
content: +1 ^And really not that cheap either. You get 1.3mio resistors at Digikey for roughly 800ukp.Exact values you need, and delivery to your door. And surface mount; who needs thruhole these days for anything production-like, honestly?

author: LaurenceW
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timestamp: May 03, 2012, 07:11:55 pm
content: Ten years old? Solderability/shelf life, anyone??

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 03, 2012, 08:32:46 pm
content: I have a matching supply of zener diodes, 12 and 24V 400mW. I often just use them as normal diodes.

author: siliconmix
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timestamp: May 04, 2012, 06:17:26 am
content: Quote from: pcbprototype on May 03, 2012, 10:15:12 pmthought it might be of use to someone as it is too far for me.

author: metalphreak
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timestamp: May 04, 2012, 04:57:46 pm
content: If ohmly he was willing to ship overseas

author: olsenn
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timestamp: May 04, 2012, 06:25:47 pm
content: QuoteYou just couldn't 'resist'

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2012, 08:17:36 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on May 03, 2012, 09:29:12 amNo problem, the different values are listed and there are so many, you could easily sell the surplus.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2012, 09:04:20 am
content: Quote from: Hero999 on May 05, 2012, 08:17:36 amProblem. It is most likely that the values I don't want no one else will either. That's one reason that the whole lot is for sale as one. I have been to industrial bankrupt clearance auctions in the past, the receivers in bankruptcy have sold all that will sell on to other similar company's already what goes under the hammer is the pickings of the skeleton, all the esoteric parts that were used to manufacture whatever the company made that sent them bankrupt in the first place and all the bits that were in store due to failing the tests prior to use and awaiting return or machinery that is worn out or broken. It is clear that this ebay item is from such an auction, most likely the purchaser got them with a lot he wanted. I once went to such an auction in order to get a lathe chuck (still in its original box and un-used) I had to buy the contents of the entire store room as it was listed as one lot, so I ended up selling on some of the stuff some went to other bidders at the sale, other was sold later but an awful lot I just walked away from as it was of no use to any one it just went into the skip the auctioneers had at the factory.

author: siliconmix
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timestamp: May 05, 2012, 03:13:52 pm
content: has anyone from here bid on them ? i bet it was G7PSK.he's talking them down lol

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2012, 04:22:20 pm
content: Quote from: G7PSK on May 05, 2012, 09:04:20 amMy point is most of the resistors are in the E6 to E24 ranges which are really common.

author: quantumfall
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timestamp: May 05, 2012, 08:08:11 pm
content: Quote from: LaurenceW on May 03, 2012, 07:11:55 pmAs a family we did have a TV built about 1970. It still worked 25 years later, the tube was not colour correct, but all the amplifiers for sound was very good, tuner perfect etc. The components had been used every day in the hot cabinet of the TV.I think components can age very well. As they say it could all be different now.After 20 years I took the back of the set and it was under a quilt of dust and fluff.It was a 20 inch approx Hitachi colour TV it had stripes instead of dots for the phosphors with black edges to them, I saw that advertised as revolutionary years later.

author: Monkeh
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timestamp: May 05, 2012, 09:21:19 pm
content: Quote from: quantumfall on May 05, 2012, 08:08:11 pmHe's talking about oxidation of the leads, not failure of the resistors (hah, resistors? Fail?).

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2012, 09:31:58 pm
content: In my experience, hand soldering is generally not a problem, even for old parts, just tin the leads with plenty of flux first. I wouldn't expect wave soldering to work though.