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Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well
You don't want to try it to prove it but these things have survived falls
off ladders. Once I had to take the movement out to straighten the
pointer from a fall, one of several. Nothing else busted, still
accurate. Mine is also pin type.
Got a Triplett mirror scale analog too. But prefer the 260 - it's
robust. However it's easier to grab a cheap digital for this Estuff
and I do. Both these meters will still be around long after they plant
me.
Ever see an old telephone bell crank 'ringer' ? Good continuity
tester just crank the crank and if the line's continuous the bell rings.
Used it as a demo when teaching school and sometimes as a show display.
Fascinates people. Put your fingrs across the terminals gives a pretty
good lectric shock. Ran across this under the bench couple weeks ago.
Tested her, Still works.
Dave
Weymouth MA
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:37:34 -0400 "RJ Kanary" <rjkanary nauticom net>
writes:
> Another Simpson® 260 aficionado! Great. I have a real antique
> that I
> inherited from my uncle. Pin jacks instead of banana jacks, and the
> 'beehive' housing for the resistors and switches. It sees more use
> than my
> Fluke 87®.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David C Robie" <mycroftxx1 juno com>
> To: <noaddress drmm net>
> Cc: <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 3:14 AM
> Subject: Re: (ET) one blade not cutting well
>
>
> > Whippersnapper, Thank you. I've built Eico, Heathkit, and Knight
> kits
> > and most of that was test equipment. A Knight (Allied Radio
> brand) was
> > my first 23 Channel CB set. All tubes. Solid state wasn't even
> called
> > that yet. Still have most of that old stuff floating around here,
> and
> > once in while get rid of some of it at MIT (MA equivalent of
> Caltech)
> > electronics flea market.
> > My First DVM was a Fluke bench model at near $400 '70's
> dollars. Red
> > display. Still works (but I had to clean those blasted pushbutton
> > switches) (wonder what the aging rate of it's timekeeper is? bet
> the
> > third digit after the decimal s a throwaway now and the second
> > questionable)
> > Recently, I saw a lovely pocket DVM known to be super reliable
> and
> > accurate (As I spec'ed it out by comparison testing of a lot of
> brands
> > and bought 'school quantity lots' of for the electronics classes
> of
> > Northeast Institute Boston (where I was Electronic lab instructor
> and in
> > charge of all test equipment). We paid (bought about 150) bout
> $80 ea..
> > Saw it lately in a catalog for $20 single lot. These meters had
> to be
> > real good so the students would all get the same readings on such
> as
> > graphing the curve of a semiconductors turn on region. The
> electricians
> > class also used em, which was a waste of the school's money they
> didn't
> > need the complexity or accuracy.
> > I now use these Harbor Freight $2.99 - $9.00 meters (same meter,
> price
> > and case color varies) because I don't need the accuracy with EV's
> and
> > because I have a tendency to step on the blasted things, drop em
> in water
> > etc. When they go to $2.99 I buy several. All have worked only
> one was
> > off cal when I got it. The newest elcheapos even got a push button
> > backlight that times itself out.
> > I was decrying $80 for a 'single purpose' meter that I would use
> > perhaps a couple times a year. If I was still making money with
> meters
> > I'd snap it up. (too much fulltime electronics fries a guy's
> brain - I
> > quit while I still had one)
> >
> > Still got my 260. She'll do things that a DMM wont. Show quick
> variance
> > or momentary int loss of voltage, read AC that's on a DC line, and
> read
> > continuity on AC wall type switches, for instance. Continuous
> > monitoring (the DMM battery wants to quit during em)
> > Once had a Simpson (or was it Triplett?) ohmmeter with one
> scale. 0-5
> > ohms. Wow was that handy doing commercial sound especially. If
> you
> > knew how long a spkr cable was, the lo ohmmeter would tell you
> where the
> > short or break was and whether it was a short or break. And I was
> > contracting the sound of a large amusement park at the time. Main
> PA
> > line was bout a half mile long. (did it for 15 yrs, til the park
> closed
> > and became another blasted condo by the sea).
> >
> > Am 67 going on 21 and having a hell of a good time with EV's of
> all kinds
> > and also am a home shop machinist (specialising in old machinery
> and hit
> > n miss and small steam engines) so have no problems doing the
> metalwork
> > or 'gypsy auto body' work required on these gizmos. They are not
> only
> > good for the planet and useful as hell but they are fun !
> >
> > Today, went to an EV and hybrid show run by an envirogroup North of
> > Boston. Ran the EAA display there (New England chapter).
> Beautiful
> > show, fantastic response to all the exhibitors by the public. Am
> hoarse
> > from talking and still vibrating from the show. Ergo, on this
> darned 'CB
> > set with a keyboard' in the wee hours. Which I shouldn't be.
> >
> > So catch U later. Have fun.
> >
> > Dave
> > Weymouth MA
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:32 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
> > writes:
> >> 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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