What brand did you buy and where? Most professional brands sold by Digikey or Mouser have the usual pins, however cheap unbranded components from hobby places usually sell a cheaper Chinese brand with quite flimsy pins.
/Martin On Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 16:49:08 UTC+1 Tom Katt wrote: > Recently purchased new 1/4 + 1/2 watt resistor kits as my stock was > running low... I bought a few variety packs at Rat Shack ages ago that > have lasted decades - the new ones have leads that seem to be literally > hair-thin - they bend all over the place in a breadboard and break off on > terminal strips if you push them out of the way to get to another component. > > I know that everything has gotten 'cheaper' over the years, but this > really surprised me. Do I really need to start hunting for 'vintage > resistors' on eBay now? Crazy! > > Sorry - I feel a bit better getting that off my chest. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/da93ebe7-4944-44c9-815a-3ad26b0138e8n%40googlegroups.com.
