Hi Pat,
Not going to change, but has changed. We were first notified about a potential change 2 years ago, but as we're such a volume user we could turn around and say no thanks.
However as every one else has now changed over on commodity parts & copper is so much more expensive we're now left with no choice but to change.
Manufacturers are not always telling their distributors let alone their customers - they are just widening the tolerances in the spec sheets, or in some cases changing from copper to a copper alloy.
We've had to change the 1/8W parts but resisted going to 0.4mm (0.0157 inches) on 1/2W.
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