Hahah, I'm a patient man! But when I think I'm close to solving a problem, my patience disappears!!
My biggest problem is I get 2 days a week to work on stuff and then everything has to be packed away and started on a fresh the next weekend.
So when I've got a radio apart in a lot of bits I like to make as much progress as possible.
I've got no clue about reading a multimeter, but a friend will be over later today who can show me. I've looked all over the VZ and there isn't the same one anywhere I can see, but today is the first day of my life I've ever paid attention to resistors in way shape or form.
I can get resistors locally, but I greatly apprecite your offer Norm.
The million dollar question is now which ones I should get to test out?
Going off the colours of the other resistors on the board I'm pretty certain it's a red stripe. The brown on the other ones is a much more fauny brown.
One thing I'd like to know, and this is obviously pretty basic stuff, but does a brown resistor with the same colour code do the same thing as a white resistor? Or are do they do all different things based on the main resistor colour?
Like I said, this is all new learning for me, and without your guidance and help I'd still be rooting around through the little hole in the motor with a screw! Really appreciate all this help Norm!
Rock On.
My biggest problem is I get 2 days a week to work on stuff and then everything has to be packed away and started on a fresh the next weekend.
So when I've got a radio apart in a lot of bits I like to make as much progress as possible.
I've got no clue about reading a multimeter, but a friend will be over later today who can show me. I've looked all over the VZ and there isn't the same one anywhere I can see, but today is the first day of my life I've ever paid attention to resistors in way shape or form.
I can get resistors locally, but I greatly apprecite your offer Norm.
The million dollar question is now which ones I should get to test out?
Going off the colours of the other resistors on the board I'm pretty certain it's a red stripe. The brown on the other ones is a much more fauny brown.
One thing I'd like to know, and this is obviously pretty basic stuff, but does a brown resistor with the same colour code do the same thing as a white resistor? Or are do they do all different things based on the main resistor colour?
Like I said, this is all new learning for me, and without your guidance and help I'd still be rooting around through the little hole in the motor with a screw! Really appreciate all this help Norm!
Rock On.
See, I just KNEW we would find it. All you need to do now is measure that value and you'll know what to stuff in there. Keep in mind that the blue-gray combo will always start with 68--. So the rest is the multiplier. So if you read 703 ohms, don't kill yourself trying to find a 703 ohm resistor. There is some error always introduced through the leads, measuring equipment accuracy, tolerance of the resistor, etc. Whatever the reading you get, the closes 68-- value combo will be the one. So looks like we no longer have to guess. Measure that resistor and put the proper one in there. As for that caramel looking thing -- that looks like a ceramic capacitor.
good luck with the fix 
