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I agree on the resistors. The resistor colour code coupled with poor quality of colours on the actual resistors has me frequently reaching for a multimeter to just measure the resistance.

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I just end up not reusing resistors. I have the unused ones in labeled drawers. Once I lose track of a resistor's value, I add it to the pile of components that need sorting.

I actually sorted that pile once for fasteners, but resistors are so cheap...

I remember going to a small electronic supplier for custom and mainly military things around 1999... The assembly folks would not waste time on getting a resistor and several other parts of they fell and at the end of the day the sweepings would be sold in a miscellaneous bag of parts

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