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Old 05-15-2005, 08:24 PM
Walter Harley
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Default Re: Carbon Comp: Aging Causes Out Of Tol?

"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote
in message news:118ef69isc5dp88@corp.supernews.com...
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Over 14 years, would drift from aging cause them to go
that far out of tolerance?
I was recently working on an amp from the 1950's; every carbon comp in it
was at least 20% higher than its markings indicated.

(Woe be unto the tech who repairs a tube guitar amp and replaces the
resistors with new ones whose values are nominally correct! Depending on
which resistor it is, it'll change the sound of the amp...)
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