Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 26 Jul 2006 at 15:05, David C Robie wrote:

> MYGAWSH  $80 for a meter.

That's pretty reasonable, IMO.  You young whippersnappers are spoiled (if 
that's the right word) by these cheapo Chinese $20 DMMs.  (I saw one at 
the 
dollar store the other day for $4.  Sheesh.)

Seems to me that Back in the Day (tm) a really good VTVM cost well over a 
hundred bucks, and those were 1965 dollars.  It was a kit, too, and every 
resistor and capacitor in it was made in USA (Ohmite, Sprague, etc.).  

In fact I think my FETVM from the early '70s or so was about that 
expensive, 
something in the $150-200 range.  It still works, too.  

Good old EICO.  

Fluke or Simpson meters may very well still be helping you maintain your 
ET 
35 years from now (and I have no doubt that the ET will still be going.  
But 
I'll be very surprised if you find more than a few Korean or Chinese-made 
DMMs that still work in 2040.  (But then I probably won't still be working 
by then either. ;-)


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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