..to misquote the Borg.
Images indicate the fault but the problem I have is identifying this beast. The colour codes look like Brown, Black, Grey with a Gold tolerance.
My colour perception's is not perfect but I've shown this to a number of people and they all say the same colours. But the third colour should be the multiplier, if my understanding is correct, and grey doesn't appear as a multiplier in the charts I've looked at. A Maplin chap used an app on his phone that suggested it was a 1 Giga Ohm device, (1000 Mega Ohm) that seems pretty big to me. About the same as a block of wood!
Could it really be this size? The resistor comes from the pcb on a washing machine.
Any help with the identity of this thing would be appreciated, thanks.