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Old Fluke Multimeters
gizmoco:
"Do you have 32 806x?"
No, a variety including a few bench meters. I usually run into 3 or 4 great deals a year at garage sales or hamfests. Most recently I bought a 77 and an 8062A for $15 each at a hamfest. Best deal was a 333 for $2 at a garage sale complete with soft case in like new condition. How can you pass on a deal like that even if you have too many meters?
"Can you post a picture of the two lcd displays side by side?"
I'd be happy to but it may be a while. My wife is having health issues so I'm spending a lot of time at the hospital.
lowimpedance:
--- Quote from: drtaylor on November 09, 2013, 12:48:00 am --- You can turn any 8062 into an 8060 if you know what to do (and I do). But unless you can find a case with the other two holes and figure out how to get the other two elastomeric switches, it won't be pretty.
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drtaylor
I was curious enough to have another peek inside my 8062a to see what was 'left in' to simplify manufacture between the two versions.
Last time I had it apart I recall that the top cover had the moulding for two more buttons. The top casing does indeed have the positions for the buttons and the holes are just covered by the label, however the switch/LCD PCB only has the two switch pads etched. So there was two PCB versions, one for 8060a and another for the 8062a with only two buttons it seems.
Excavatoree:
--- Quote from: retiredcaps on November 09, 2013, 04:42:39 am ---
--- Quote from: drtaylor on November 09, 2013, 12:29:51 am ---Someone told me recently that they were still selling new 8060s as recently as 1998. Does anyone have confirmation of that? If true the production run of 8060s went from 1982 to 1998, over 16 years. I wonder if any other DMM had such a long reign.
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Radio Shack catalog from 2001 shows the 8060A for sale at $499 MSRP. 8062A had a $419 MSRP. See
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/2001-b/h244.html
Fluke 27 is still advertised in same 2001 catalog, but I haven't done any research on when the 27 was first made yet.
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/2001-b/h246.html
27 had a $349 MSRP.
Both models don't show up in the 2002 catalog, but still could have been sold as Radio Shack may have decided to concentrate on their own brand name multimeters?
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Here's a section of a 1996 catalog showing the 8060 series, but the picture is of an 8062. It's a color catalog, so I'll include it if anyone is interested.
I've got the two page section scanned that includes the original 80 series, and the Model 45 Bench DMM. It ended up as a 15 MB .PDF, so I can't attach it. I also have the two pages of the 70 series II meters.
bance:
From what I've read of this thread, it's mostly focused on hand-held meters, but given the thread title I don't think I'm too far off topic.
I've recently bought a 8800A bench meter, but it has suffered the ravages of time, and is missing a couple of switches. They are the piano type switches, and I'm missing two, the power switch (I believe it should be green in colour) and the resistance mode switch (Putty grey in colour.)
Anyhow the question I'd like to ask is if anyone knows of a source for these switches. I've located this http://qservice.tv/vpasp/shopexd.asp?id=10153 at "Q-services" which looks very similar to the specified part, but has a different part No.
I think that if a source is not available, I could just order two of these and perhaps swap the auto-range switch for the resistance mode,of course, that's assuming they are compatible switches!
Thanks in advance,
Steve.
SLJ:
I might ave a couple of these for parts. I'll check. I might have sold them at a meet, don't remember but I'll check later today as they would be out in the other shop if I have them. Put your general location in your profile so we know about where you are located.
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