From: legg@nospam.magma.ca   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:07:46 +0000, Cursitor Doom   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   A 'bubble' is a definite sign of a paint defect at time of mfr..   
      
   RL   
      
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