n8n
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Good evening all
Last weekend I found a Simpson 260-6XLPM at Value Village for the princely sum of $7, including probes (but the alligator clips were missing, so there's a reason you can't absolutely hate me.) I cleaned it up, replaced the one destroyed D-cell battery terminal, bought some new batteries, and it works (I actually had a couple extra battery terminals left over from ~7-8 years ago when I fixed up two 260-8Ps.) It even had the correct fuses in it which has to be a first for me! Because it is a Series 6, however, I couldn't use the Simpson 150-2 amp-clamp that I have for my Series 8 meter, the reason being that the Series 6 has banana jacks on the front and Series 7/8/9 have reverse bananas. So the amp-clamp would work, but only if I had a different style cord to connect it to the meter. Well, I found a "broken" 150 (older) amp clamp on eBay with the cord I needed for low $$ and it showed up today. Thing is, the only thing broken about it is the three posts on the front plastic cover that the screws that hold it all together screw into. I'm thinking that this should be fixed, but how? Maybe something with epoxy and some aluminum or brass tubing from the model section of the hobby shop? What would stick to the case? I see that as the biggest challenge here. I'm thinking to try something like JB Weld or PC-7 but I am not super confident. It's a hard black plastic, the manual says it's Lexan (yes, I got the manual, I need to scan it for Simpson260.com as they don't have it) Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'd way rather fix this and have another useful tool, even if it is literally as old as I am (the date on the manual is the same year I was born)
I also have a pair of the alligator clips coming so now I need to decide what kind of case I'm going to use for all of this. I did get a big Pelican case a while back with no foam at a different thrift store, I'm thinking maybe I'll get the foam kit for that and then make a case with the meter, probes, amp-clamp, and maybe one of those splitter tools, it may be big enough.
Last weekend I found a Simpson 260-6XLPM at Value Village for the princely sum of $7, including probes (but the alligator clips were missing, so there's a reason you can't absolutely hate me.) I cleaned it up, replaced the one destroyed D-cell battery terminal, bought some new batteries, and it works (I actually had a couple extra battery terminals left over from ~7-8 years ago when I fixed up two 260-8Ps.) It even had the correct fuses in it which has to be a first for me! Because it is a Series 6, however, I couldn't use the Simpson 150-2 amp-clamp that I have for my Series 8 meter, the reason being that the Series 6 has banana jacks on the front and Series 7/8/9 have reverse bananas. So the amp-clamp would work, but only if I had a different style cord to connect it to the meter. Well, I found a "broken" 150 (older) amp clamp on eBay with the cord I needed for low $$ and it showed up today. Thing is, the only thing broken about it is the three posts on the front plastic cover that the screws that hold it all together screw into. I'm thinking that this should be fixed, but how? Maybe something with epoxy and some aluminum or brass tubing from the model section of the hobby shop? What would stick to the case? I see that as the biggest challenge here. I'm thinking to try something like JB Weld or PC-7 but I am not super confident. It's a hard black plastic, the manual says it's Lexan (yes, I got the manual, I need to scan it for Simpson260.com as they don't have it) Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'd way rather fix this and have another useful tool, even if it is literally as old as I am (the date on the manual is the same year I was born)
I also have a pair of the alligator clips coming so now I need to decide what kind of case I'm going to use for all of this. I did get a big Pelican case a while back with no foam at a different thrift store, I'm thinking maybe I'll get the foam kit for that and then make a case with the meter, probes, amp-clamp, and maybe one of those splitter tools, it may be big enough.