Hi Y'all,
I'm recaping a nagra BmII mixer, and am in a bind.
There's a multi colored component that I don't recognize, and am in need of assistance.
The schematic reads R82k* (values modified for bmt with microphone transformer).
It reads 1nf on the multimeter.
I would really appreciate any input
Best regards

R stands for resistor. Looks like an 82K ohm resistor. I've never seen one like this.

Hi Larry,
I thought it to be a resistor, but I can't get a resistance measurement on it.
This is as germanium mixer (oc 44)
regards
Tony.

Looks more like one of those specialty tempco capacitors to me...but the capacitance reading of 1 nF doesn't square with the color bands.

...that is a capacitor. Bands read out to 47; either 47pF (if it's ceramic) or 47µF (if it's tantalum; there should also be a polarity dot on it)...I've seen tantalum caps in Euro transistor radios that look similar to this...

Yup, 47pF capacitor. Common as muck in Europe. Nagra - Swiss aren't they? Lovely little tape decks.

A similar device in one of my Nagra rell to reel decks also had me fooled.

In the same deck (a mono Nagra 4.2), there was a part looking just like a resistor and had me stumped when I couldn't measure anything. It was a fuse.

dauphine

It turns out that my fluke does not measure down to pf, so no doubt this is a ceramic 47pf cap.
Not sure if changing to metal film will incur any improvement, we'll see.
Thank you every one for your help!
It's highly appreciated
Tony.

IMHO it's probably not faulty.