RN55s by the pound

[Damon Hill]

A visit to Boeing Surplus in Kent, WA turned up three
bins of RN55 metal film resistors at $12/pound. I
bought a pound of mostly unsorted items, plus a few
specific values and a gem or two. Most values range
from 1K to 50K or so, though there's a good bit of
sub-100 ohm parts in one bin I didn't sample.

They are mostly a mix of Mepco/Electra and Dale, with
a few other brands; approximately half are non-magnetic
in this batch. Looks like they're mostly old stock with
date codes of nearly thirty years. I plan to use them
as needed in my projects, though when I'm done sorting
I will have to declare some surplus:

Got about 300 pieces of 18.7K Dale, nonmag

100 pieces of 1.1k, unknown mfg, non-mag

About 75 pieces of 14.7K 0.1% ERC55 Dale, non-mag--
calibration standard, anyone?

Boeing Surplus usually doesn't have much electronic
surplus of interest to me, especially individual NOS
electronic parts. I plan to buy a couple more pounds to get
a sampling of each bin's contents before they vanish.

Wish I had a really good 5 digit DVM or precision RLC
bridge...

[jmateus]

Hello Damon

Do they have a Web site where they sell the stuff? If so can I
have the URL? I'd be very interested in buying at least some
resistors by the pound. It sounds good...
Thanks
John

[1/137]

I believe that you have to go there...and pick the stuff up.

I was there once...lots of junk and a few diamonds in the rough...sorta like here in Albuquerque.....there is a place that has lots of stuff from the labs.....lots of junk...

rt

[Damon Hill]

http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/...ail/index.html

Click on "PNW Home"

Possibly best known for their "Tool Bin", where you can pick
through drilling and milling bits of all shapes and sizes.
I'm pretty sure you have to search and pick up items
in person.

I'm planning to pick up a couple more pounds. Does anyone
have specific values/quantities they need?

[multi-volti]

Hi:

I got some surplus ERC-55/RNC55H series resistors. (Established Reliability rating).

Does anyone know if these are subject to any weird export rules being a little higher up the MIL- ratings tree?

Sounds weird, but I don't want any surprises.

Thanks

Murray

[unclejed613]

i really doubt they would restrict parts like that...... now maybe the signal processor chip from their newest *CLASSIFIED* definitely would not be allowed.

all kidding aside, i doubt that reliability certified parts would be a problem, but it doesn't hurt to ask... there are some very strange import and export regs.....

[wrenchone]

I picked up some deals like that at my local surplus emporium, where various parts were just dumped into a big bin and sold by the pound. It's a bit of a pain to sort through stuff (I use little manila envelopes for each value), but it's a whole lot better than paying retail for 1% resistors.

[scott wurcer]

We dumped mass quantities of stuff due to lead free requirements. Eval cards through to 1% resistors in boxes

[wrenchone]

Betcha I know where some of that went... We are doing similar things on a case by case basis. I pick up some nice parts that way.