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turretslug · 11th Sep 2019, 10:47 am

There's a MkII here that's on the pink side of beige- I suspect that they started off towards beige but head pink with sunlight etc. The MkIII was a "sensible but dull" lab grey. It's a shame that there isn't a bit more colour amongst test gear, a little while back Maplin were doing a budget analogue test meter in bright green.

Spotter moment- it's interesting to see a MkII with the printed-on-knobs range selection associated with later Selectest 50s- many have the legending fixed to the case under transparent acrylic (?) knobs. Well, they start transparent but go cloudy with age. There seem to be quite a lot of incremental detail changes of case, selector, connection post colouring and detail styling. The last Selectest 50s deleted the 2.5kV AC and DC multiplier terminal option (changing safety requirements ?) and adopted 1/3/10 ranging in a similar manner to AVO 8s.

11th Sep 2019, 10:47 am	#6
turretslug Dekatron Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Surrey, UK. Posts: 4,395	Re: Selectest 50 meter - in pink?? There's a MkII here that's on the pink side of beige- I suspect that they started off towards beige but head pink with sunlight etc. The MkIII was a "sensible but dull" lab grey. It's a shame that there isn't a bit more colour amongst test gear, a little while back Maplin were doing a budget analogue test meter in bright green. Spotter moment- it's interesting to see a MkII with the printed-on-knobs range selection associated with later Selectest 50s- many have the legending fixed to the case under transparent acrylic (?) knobs. Well, they start transparent but go cloudy with age. There seem to be quite a lot of incremental detail changes of case, selector, connection post colouring and detail styling. The last Selectest 50s deleted the 2.5kV AC and DC multiplier terminal option (changing safety requirements ?) and adopted 1/3/10 ranging in a similar manner to AVO 8s.