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images2-fasj-worth-simpson260-may2012.jpg Simpson 260 series multimeter. I still have one, just got new leads for it. Manufactured since 1937, still in production, original company was purchased by the Chippewa Indians in 1985. Great product. Today's price is around $600. I came across mine about 35 years ago, maybe more, a friend of mine was teaching an air conditioning night class for adults at Miami High School and said they were going to throw them away because they were old and were switching to digital so he got me one. I should have kept them all. They now have a mirrored scale for accurate measurements/ They were common in the military.
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Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke. -
I have had the same multimeter for @20 years. I don't recall what mske it is. It's in my toolbox in garage...buried under..."stuff." -
That is a really cool relic. Some of the techs at my old business used Simpson meters. All I have now is 20 year old Fluke that I use every once in a while.Comment
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They still sell them new, same design for almost 90 years, incredible. Dinky, might as well check it for battery corrosion, clean the contacts, if you ever get to it. RTO we had 100Mhz Tektronics scopes and Simpson digital meters, along with all sort of generators and RF measuring stuff. I sold it all to the competition when I closed the doors, just kept this and an adjustable temperature soldering iron with a roll of very thin solder, I don't remember if I kept hand tools or anything else, I know the guy from the school system kept a couple of my monitors, I used to do all their service also took my Bird 43 rf meter. They still owed me a few thousand dollars when I closed the doors, I got tired of fighting them every month for my money. Local colleges I never had a problem getting paid, US Government never had a problem either, the best was the Secret Service, always paid cash...I wonder why. Real Estate was much easier business until the government started fucking it up, but I did well in both of them.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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I don't remember the brand of the scopes that we had. I had a Bird watt meter with the different slugs for different wattages that we used for linear amp installs. You're causing me to access memories from the back of my mind from many years ago.Comment
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Mine's a digital one I paid $300 for in the early 00's. My meth-head brother-in-law, for some reason known only to himself, got into my tools and took the leads. He probably sold them for the copper value, knowing him.Comment
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Fluke. Yes, that is the manufacturer of mine.Comment
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Like dinky I have a Fluke but I usually grab the Greenlee CM-660. Easy meter for my simple mind to use I like it. I am lucky to have Journeymen electrician veteran buddies hang here both lineman and electricians. One lineman is and instructor that teaches high volt line work from helicopters. Serious big $$ when they strap in the choppers and start grabbing those high volt cables a hundred feet in the air. Fun to watch from the ground.
Another buddy was here yesterday is a 30 yr. retired U.S. Navy flight engineer and in his spare time became a journeymen union electrician. Retired Navy then worked with the union guys. They won't take a penny from me I have to hide a hundred $$ or more in their truck when their working here. Tim you leave that money in my truck? Nope wasn't me..
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I have an old Radio Shack meter.We have met the enemy and he is us.
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