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SpecialK:
Just buy the fanciest meter Canadian Tire has when it's on sale for 50% off.

Wimberleytech:
I second the recommendations for the following:
Aneng DMM
LC100 component tester (or equivalent...these go by different names--search ebay for "component tester")

rstofer:
It's true that DMMs aren't the very best tool for capacitors and they don't generally do anything with inductors.  I view that as a separate issue.

I have been doing this stuff for more than 60 years and it is only last year that I bought an LCR meter.  It is my least used piece of test equipment.  There was a discussion about it, the DE-5000, last week.  Maybe Search for it.

The DE-5000 does give series and parallel resistance for inductors and capacitors which might be handy under some circumstances.  It also gives impedance at a range of frequencies (100 Hz to 100 kHz, fixed steps).  I bought it because my grandson is in college and this semester he has a course in Circuits (even though his major is ME).

It's kind of pricey at $125 (with the adapters) for as little use as I'll ever have for it.  But that's just me, I pretty much play in the digital part of the electronics sandbox.

https://www.amazon.com/5000-Handheld-LCR-Meter-accessories/dp/B00S298KJO

I bought a couple of bench meters when that pay-to-learn electronics school went out of business.  They were all over eBay.  These too are seldom used.  They are really nice meters but neither one measure capacitance or inductance.

Until you are settled in some particular corner of the electronics sandbox, you should probably avoid spending a lot of money on dedicated equipment.   Ham Radio is not at all the same as Audio and neither are the same as Digital or <whatever> and the equipment needs vary significantly.

There is also a tendency to worship increasing 'counts' on DMMs.  What good are they?  If you get 3 decimal digits, that is close enough for all practical purposes.  More than close enough considering tolerances.  When I was in college, there were no calculators, we did everything with a slide rule with, what, 2 digits?  3 digits at most?  I'd venture to say that the Apollo program was designed with slide rules.  I knew some of the engineers working on the Atlas Missile Program and each of them carried a pocket slide rule.  Measuring 100V to the nearest uV is kind of silly.

As Dave shows, that little Aneng 8008 is pretty darn accurate.

lefty:
Right. I may be a bit premature since I just started tinkering around. I still have a lot of learning to do before I even know what I'm doing. By the way, I have one of those slide rules. MICRONTA with a nice leather case. It was my Dad's. Dammed if I know how to use it.

rstofer:
Move the left index of the C scale over '2' on the D scale.  Move the slider down to '3' on the C scale and you should read '6' on the D scale.

https://youtu.be/aj6_yYdt-Z8


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