[Milsurplus] Couple things about the ARC cap in the ebay

[Gene Smar]

My first soldering job was on a KnightKit C-100 CB walkie-talkie in 1965. The instruction manual suggested using a metal, spring-loaded hairclip as a heat sink when soldering the transistor leads.
73 de Gene Smar AD3F 

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No criticism, but a couple of thoughts:

First, I very much doubt that the original resistors were carbon composition. Unless the values were extremely high, they were probably wire wound.

Second, you can solder a resistor – or other component – without altering its value by gripping the lead with a hemostat next to the body of the part.

  

  

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