From: cd6699@notformail.com   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:41:35 -0500, legg  wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:38:33 +0000, Cursitor Doom   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>Here are the photos of the suspicous resistor; let me know what you   
   >>think. In addition to the blow holes, it's also slightly mis-shapen.   
   >>   
   >>https://disk.yandex.com/d/ommuYJD2ZKsW8A   
   >   
   >Doesn't look like a paint defect, nnless you've been poking   
   >at it with an exacto knife tip, after the fact.   
      
   I've not been excavating! There was a bubble on the surface   
   originally, which I scraped off with a fingernail to reveal that hole.   
   I didn't dig any further.   
      
   >Can't tell if it's smoke or just bad shadowing. Why not same   
   >exposure and lighting in all three images?   
      
   It was very difficult to photograph, because the depth of field was   
   close to zero and the resistor was only millimeters from the lens   
   glass. I had to use a hand-held LED lamp for illumination, but   
   full-on, frontal illumination wasn't possible due to the proximity of   
   the subject to the lens, I'm afraid. The lighting varies because I was   
   holding the lamp by hand each time.   
      
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