I quote: "two broken resistors in a set of five for the LTZ circuit is a rejection rate of 40%," that is exactly what you said, that is absurd. That is an inaccurate statement of failure rates and no one would accept such a statement, care to try that one on General Resistance and guess their response, come on.
As to failure analysis, you have to have the items in hand in order to do a proper analysis so you can't claim I didn't make an analysis, I gave you some examples of possible causes for the failure, which one it might be remains to be resolved, since the cost of returning said resistors to me for analysis exceeds the cost of the resistors, it is ridiculous to make a point of it. You also first said the resistors were reading high, then later changed it to open, obviously they appear to be open, the cause remains a mystery and since you're not qualified to do the analysis, you must accept the fact that the cause remains unknown. I accept the fact that they failed for some unknown reason, there is nothing left to complain about, we both agree they are broken, the cause at this point is not really relevant.
I don't have a problem with criticism when it is accurate, you are missing the point, I know all about weld failures and how they can occur, they happen now and then for a lot of different reasons, the point is to strive for no weld failures. In fact, I demand you produce any evidence of my denying that the resistors failed or any thing else that was inaccurate.
While I agree with you about our dimwitted pres, I object to your silly comparison, it has no place in this discussion. I think all that needed to be said has been said, two resistors have failed, reason unknown, end of story.
Nothing personal here, just disagreeing with your position.