Markings on mil-spec fusible resistors?

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I'm looking at some resistors in a old piece of mil-spec equipment and
I think that they're supposed to be fusible (e.g. fail open, not
shorted). They look like metal film 1/2W resistors, body is painted a
bluish gray, and are marked, for example, red-purple-gold-gold-white.
It seems to be a 2.7 ohm 5% resistor. Am I correct that the last
(white) stripe indicates that they are fusible? Or is this some
mil-spec quality stripe?

Tim.

 

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Yes you are correct Tim.

 

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Am I correct that the last(white) stripe indicates that they

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[truegridtz]

I'm looking at some resistors in a old piece of mil-spec equipment and
I think that they're supposed to be fusible (e.g. fail open, not
shorted). They look like metal film 1/2W resistors, body is painted a
bluish gray, and are marked, for example, red-purple-gold-gold-white.
It seems to be a 2.7 ohm 5% resistor. Am I correct that the last
(white) stripe indicates that they are fusible? Or is this some
mil-spec quality stripe?

Tim, this appears to be a mil-spec designator for solderable leads on a RL20
(mil-r-22684) 1/2 watt metal film. They are very good resistors. This
milspec was superceeded by RLR (mil-r-39017) which is the same part, but put
through a tighter quality control. Mark