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Originally Posted by Reece
It's kind of scorched but seems to read black-white-gold-gold-brown.
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The colors in the burned resistor are the typically faded colors found in the predicted, by assumed value, Green-Blue-Gold-Gold resistor.
One trick to read the colors after you have removed the overheated resistor is to turn it so that the least-overheated side is up, and then gently scrape off the burnt paint with a single edge razor blade until you just start to see the base color. Look at that color junction with a magnifying glass under an incandescent lamp.
This works just often enough to make this test worth while.
James