Beolit 600 component identity

['LIVEWIRE?']

I was fairly certain that it was a wirewound resistor from it's trade name 'Vitrohm'. As I noticed in post #15, that suggested 'Vitreous Enamel'. IIRC these are flame retardant resistors.

[mhennessy]

Originally Posted by roffe

It turned out to be a wirewound resistor.

Thank you for going to the effort of doing that. Especially as that was a perfectly good resistor.

Now, will the OP do the same with his apparently failed one? His is dark brown, so there's still a slim possibility it might be different.

For me, the real question is not so much what it is, but how did it fail low? What's the mechanism - especially in the context of that radio?

So until the specific questions I raised in post #19 are answered, we're still in the dark

Mark