[Amps] Alpha76A Multimeter - Postscript - long post

[Don Nesbitt]

Hi Bill - Thanks for the suggestion - but - been
there, done that - lots of compressed air, cleaning,
adjusting, fiddling, tinkering, hovering, laying on of
hands, etc, etc, etc, all to no joy - I am keeping the
old meter though!  73 --don n4hh

--- Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:13:46 -0700 (PDT), Don
> Nesbitt wrote:
> 
> >Thanks again to all who had suggestions regarding
> my
> >"sticky and sluggish" multimeter.  The bottom line
> is
> >that the meter movement itself was bad. 
> 
>
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> 
> Before you toss the old meter, try blowing the
> movement out with
> compressed air.  I have found a few meters which had
> somehow attracted
> iron filings into the moving parts and were
> "sticky".  Hold the
> movement still while doing this to avoid damage. 
> Worked for me.
> 
> --
> Bill W6WRT
> 
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