Has anyone ever seen a type of through-hole resistor where both leads were on one end? I remember taking the back off my dad's aircraft band radio and thinking the resistors looked very unusual. Unfortunately, the radio was sold off when my parents downsized, so I can't remember even the make (I remember it had a leatherette case and it had a bar antenna on top with flip-up sights on its ends).

 

Common with power resistors:

 

Has anyone ever seen a type of through-hole resistor where both leads were on one end? I remember taking the back off my dad's aircraft band radio and thinking the resistors looked very unusual. Unfortunately, the radio was sold off when my parents downsized, so I can't remember even the make (I remember it had a leatherette case and it had a bar antenna on top with flip-up sights on its ends).

I simply bend one lead around towards the other.

 

Has anyone ever seen a type of through-hole resistor where both leads were on one end?

You can buy them with formed leads as circled below. I think the resistor had kinked leads for retention in boards prior to soldering.

Or you can bend them yourself.

 

I'm aware that axial types can be placed vertically and I've seen the type where one lead is covered with the same type of paint
as the body.

The style I speak of is similar to what boostbuck describes (and I have seen that style as well), but the part body size was a half-watt style. It's almost as if it was a metal-film resistor produced using a hollow insulating tube, and the top lead was fed down through the body instead of being formed like a normal axial lead.

 

If you are concerned about shorting, simply slip a length of plastic insulation over the long lead. The plastic insulation comes off a piece of hookup wire. You could use heat shrink tubing instead.

 

There is that, true, but I was wondering if anyone else had ever seen that style of resistor...
apparently it may have been unique to that one model of radio. Just thought I'd ask.

Finally found the radio: Nova-Tech Pilot II radio: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/novatech_pilot_iipilot.html

 

Finally found the radio: Nova-Tech Pilot II radio:

The resistors in the photo look like regular axial leaded resistors that were formed to be radial.

 

I see that... I guess I must have misremembered after all these years.
Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

 

I see that... I guess I must have misremembered after all these years.
Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

No need to apologize. You didn't force anyone to read your thread and anyone who replied had nothing better to do at the time.