Bet you just couldn't resist that.

I have low tolerance.

Power to you for that amazing pun!

I’ll have to remember thes jokes so I can tell my people at ohm.

Moh! Moh! Give us moh!

Unless it gets dropped or something it could easily work for another hundred years. Thinking about your comment I realised I am on my third big name DMM in thirty years. The first an HP just stopped working with random flashing segments after about six years. The second a Fluke kept losing segments due to worn out zebra strips. i couldn't find a supplier who would ship replacements to the U.K. The third, also a Fluke still works but I wouldn't put any money on it lasting fifty years.

The thrifts have been very dry around here lately.

Me too. In the UK we have charity shops but they have regional sorting centres now. They sell anything they deem interesting or valuable online for maximum profit. It usually means what's in the shop is trash. It's a shame really as they no longer give anything back to the communities that support them.

@@danieljones9776 that's why I stick to shops run by small local charities. Dog rescue centres, hospices etc. I've found some good stuff in those. As you say, those run by the big national health charities like CRUK and the BHF are mainly the overpriced remnants of Grandma's closet. (Plus they treat their volunteers / lower level staff like garbage, in stark contrast to the pay and perks invariably enjoyed by the top brass.) Even our local council now puts anything good that's brought into their household waste sites on eBay :(

@@rich_edwards79 This is exactly the situation in the US. Some years ago the major thrift chains became irritating little ebays with online warehouses, so the golden era of cheap & crazy discoveries was gone. These days when items are dropped off at a local store, they're sorted and anything of worth or interest is removed and passed along to a central office. To add insult to injury, the soiled, dented garbage that remains on local shelves is now priced higher than identical new items.

@@FranklyPeetoons yep, my late wife was American and we used to love rummaging through Goodwill, the Sally Army and other places along MA Rt1 (there was a great used bookstore called 'Savers' in Danvers MA that carried a lot of vintage electrical stuff) when we were back there visiting family. Idk what the pickings are like now but I refuse to use overpriced eBay which is 3x the cost of Marketplace, Gumtree (our version of CL etc) and then has extortionate shipping fees on top. It's going to get worse too due to the inflationary / cost of living crisis forcing people to seek out lower-cost options.

See the link in the description. The Roller-Smith HTD circuit tester was introduced in 1927.

@@vwestlife Ah yes, that's my daily reminder for clicking "Show more". :) Great PDF too, tons of cool info in there. Gonna have to dive deep into that.

The internet says, the C battery size has been standardized since the 1920s. Who knew they had been standard that long.

I suspect that this took an old style battery that approximated a modern C size battery.

I wonder when toys started becoming batery operated as well, I have this old train set that is incomplete, but is mostly all metal parts and you can use mains connected power supplies with them, so interesting to discover when toys and small things like this must of started becoming electric in general too.

There's no point in making a widescreen video about a device that is taller than it is wide.

@@vwestlife That's true. :)

Look on eBay and you can get adaptors for cheap. Some time ago I bought a set comprising of a charger, 4 x AAs, and adapters to convert them to C or D cell.

It's a part of the Danish word for "poop?"

A label can easily be removed. Engraving your name into something is far more permanent. I did that with the calculator I paid over a weeks wages for in 1979.

Back in the 1920s, they also wrote today as "to-day".

I think thats what I have Is it metal with a carying handle on the top and runs off mains electricity? Binding posts on the front, with multiple other functions? Mine has a plastic window

@@coolelectronics1759 My Simpson 260 analog multimeter I believe is made out of Bakelite.

you know what? I might have one of those too in my toolbox. Is it about the size of a modern digital only deeper-fatter? Might also need to dig that one out and check it out to see if I can still use it

Now I know what ohm meter to suggest on r/buy it for life for anyone looking for a meter that won't break in a year.

No, I sold the Dragon.

in principle it's not that different to some cheapo cheapo analog multimeters or in style(apart the new ones being cheapo plastic of course)

@@lasskinn474 Oh, My dad have one of these multimeters. It's basically just like what you've mentioned. =)

my first record player was in 2002 when I was 9! I seen one on tv and in a book in school and became facinated with the record player and records. Someone in my community kindly donated me there old childhood fisher price suitcase player. It was the 2speed idler wheel drive one with the combination 33 and 45 spindle platter

@@coolelectronics1759 the combo platter is a really cool way to play 45s without needing the adapters, I can't believe every turntable doesn't have that lol

@@manoflego123 right? and gues what? my seccond player was a probably late 70s 4speed player that also had a combo platter that I got for a buck at a flea market. this was now spring 2003 It was a sears I believe, looked like a component turntable with a removable acrylic cover and everything, but it was self contained, with the plynth being made out of ABS plastic and cardboard it gave you volume/on-off and a a messed up tone controle nobs. It actually felt kinda cheesy but I bet it would still beat the cheapest crosley you can get today. That one also had a builtin speaker in the plynth and even had an index in the cover so you could play 45s with the lid closed kinda dumb as the speaker was upfiring mounted to the cheap cardboard inside and would be totally covered if you played it like that. Cool thing though is thats how I discovered my first 78s and why those heavy old records always sounded bad with the fisherprice lol. My first and favorites was a polka instrumental sadly dropped it and lost forever I still miss those two songs on that record it had a blue label. The other 78 I had was a red label edge chipped instrumental jaz and chaimber music type arangement with one song with piano and accordian, the other side had a 5piece jaz type band with sax I think I think the chip on that one ended up making it's way through the hole record eventially and it too had to get tossed.

It's probably more like 3.6 DCR, but this particular meter lacks a 3.6R line on the graph. ;-)