Re: Help confusing components
The blue stripey component could well actually be a capacitor, the suspicion reinforced by the slimmer brown stripeys around it definitely being resistors. The value may well be 47,000pF, i.e. 47nF or 0.047uF. It looks to be in something like an AGC filter or similar grid biasing/filtering circuit, in which case 47nF would be a reasonable value in conjunction with the 2.2 Megohm resistor. Or possibly a small signal pentode screen-grid feed, again 47nF would be sensible. Resistor colour coding is pretty dependable but capacitor makers often had their own pet colour allocations for working voltage in particular, sometimes other parameters.
With passive components, there are always awkward exceptions to visual identification rules and the problem only got worse as time went on! A DMM with capacitance measurement option can be a boon, and this function can be had quite cheaply,
Colin
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