Quality diodes?

[Jon A.]

Oh I wasn't about to try to use this one for my application, I was thinking it's a pity I can't use it because it's the only one like it I have. I'd rather use a single resistor, neatness counts big time with me. Besides, the resistor being a critical safety component in the power supply I'm sure to fry something if I try to use it on its own. Looks to me like it's acting as a dropping resistor/voltage divider, whatever it's called in this case. Each end is connected to separate 470uf filter caps and there are wires on each end carrying very different voltages, 82 and 124 if I recall correctly.