Warm water and washing-up liquid did the trick!
I've bought these resistors mainly to repair the 100 ohm/step range of my 1935 general radio 602-n decade box (0R1,1R,10R,100R, 1K ranges),
Somebody (not me) has smoked the first three 100R resistors and replaced them with some generic 5W 5% types.
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From the bunch of resistors I've now got there are: 1R decade, 2x) 10R decade, 90R decade, 100R decade, 999R(?) decade, 1K decade and
10K decade.
The resistors on the other three switches where damaged beyond repair during transport apart from two 99,9K(?) and two 9,98K(?) resistors.
All where chucked in a single box, no bubble wrap whatsoever.
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The 100R decade will be disassembled to repair the general radio.
The 10K range and a couple of the other switches will be reused for a diy decade box with 10k, 100K, 1M and 10M ranges, the latter three probably with standard 0,6W metal film resistors with trimmers.
Prior to those I will be building a sort of travelling volt and resistance standard, with 0,125R (8X1R paralled), 1R, 1R, 10R, 10R, 100R, 100R, 998R, 998R, 9,98K, 9,98K, 99,9K, 99,9K, 1M, 1M, 10M, 10M the last four also metalfilm probably.
The 0,125R uses multiple resistors so I can use that also for calibration of current sources and current range of my dmm's, nothing wild, perhaps up to 2,2A (=0,275mV=0,61W/8=0,07625W per resistor?).
Anyone has an idea what to do with a complete 10R and 90R decade?