Re: Newbie/Outsider question: what are resistors actually made of?

>>we inherited a huge collection of...resistors
>>...I was wondering if I could use them in my craft projects.
>>...there is anything inside...inherently dangerous/poisonous ?
>> Myria (JennaMyria)
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>The older resistors were mostly carbon in a ceramic(?) shell.
> Randy Day
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Carbon composition resistors are a carbon slug inside molded phenolic.
"Bakelite".
Modern film resistors are ceramic INSIDE.
Wirewound resistors (old and new) use ceramics, inside and out.
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>The hard shell caps were usually ceramic, too.
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Very old ones will have paper cases with beeswax.
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>The electrolytic type caps may have some chemicals in them,
>but they usually used metal cans as containers.
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Yup. Avoid anything that looks like a canister.

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