Thought sure I could ID these little dudes on the web but no luck so far...
Visualize a 1/4 watt metal film resistor. Axial leads, nothing remarkable, except the color bands are Brown-Black-Black-Gold-Black and my DMM says it's wide open. Cap checker says 10 pf on the nosie. Body color is a pale yellow (slime) green and I also have them in a pink body color. Color code reads just like a resistor. Brown-Black-Red-Silver-Silver is 1,000 pf, Brown-Black-Orange-Black-Gray is 10,000 pf. The tolerance / voltage bands are a little different, but aside from that what I read on the first three bands agrees with my cap checker.
Tried scraping the paint from one to see if it had a glass body, but it's epoxy coated with a very scrape-resistant epoxy. No obvious marking for polarity so I don't suspect Tantalum.
Therefore, the question is......... Are these ceramic or what? The 10,000 pf jobbies in particular are a mystery to me as that's .01 uf and they're profoundly small for the value.
If it helps, I'm tearing down reels of parts tape that came out of Rockwell-Collins in Garland, TX maybe 25 years ago. One of the reels has a label with "Rockwell" as the customer so these caps could be semi-exotic Buck Rogers kinda' stuff. They made Avionics & Satellite goods at that site and the resistors are so tight I could plotz. I tested a lot of 20+ 1k 5% metal film resistors that look exactly like what you'd find in consumer goods and all were within 10 Ohms........

So....... Has anyone ever worked with caps like this? If so, what are they, what's the intended application, and what's a good assumption for the voltage rating?
BTW: Also found some odd green tantalum bead caps that measured a dead short on the DMM. Magnifying glass showed markings of " LF 3/8A ". I'm assuming that's a 375 mil LittleFuse.
I love this stuff..........
