Multimeter identification

[kevinaston1]

Two questions.

One. Just received my copy of Chas E. Millers Valve radio and Audio repair handbook (second edition). On the front cover photograph there is a back and white cased multimeter I do not recognize. Does any member know what it is?


Two. On a recent edition of Aircraft Cash Investigation, the staff were checking over some avionics. On the bench was the largest multimeter I have ever seen. Once again, does any member recognize it?

[Radio Wrangler]

pictures might help

David

[Craig Sawyers]

Google is your friend. Difficult to make out, but it looks as if it might be a VVM (or transistor equivalent)

Craig

[kevinaston1]

Partial picture from the book front cover

[Reelman]

Originally Posted by kevinaston1

Partial picture from the book front cover

Looks like one of the USSR meters that used to be advertised at the back of Practical Wireless years ago.

Peter

[Craig Sawyers]

It has three knobs in a row, suggestive of something other than a multimeter.

Craig

[ppalped]

It might be a Simpson, maybe something along the line of the TS models.

The similarities are:

- The redish spot in the center of the panel (probably from Simpson branding in gray backgrounds?)
- Three knobs in a row
- COM and V/Ohm in the bottom left corner below the knobs (assumption from blue/red leads in the picture)
- Amps (assumption) in the top left corner (below the analog display, and above the knobs)

The Simpson TS-113 matches more or less the layout, but not the color of the chassis and the analog display seems different from what I can tell from the picture. Probably not of the same age too - but maybe an earlier model from Simpson.

Alex

[Silicon]

Could it be one of the Japanese meters that were branded as 'Eagle', 'Tandy', etc?

[stuarth]

The 3 knobs in a row look very Simpson-like. The 3 knobs are the AC/DC switch, the range switch, and the Ohms adjuster.

The standard Bakelite Simpson 260 models have much more rounded corners than the one in the photo, but the photo looks a very close match to the Simpson 260-6XL, which have an ABS case with much squarer corners. The shape of the moulding around the front panel and movement, the position of the handle, and the shape of the knobs look the same.

My 260-6XLP is black, but I have seen them in other colours.

Stuart

[ppalped]

Probably I'm stretching it in the attachment, but working with the available resolution, colors and counting some pixels, it seems indeed that the closest match might be one of the Simpson 260 models, as Stuart is suggesting.

Alex

[locknut]

Certainly looks like some incarnation of it, great detective work by the two of you!

[kevinaston1]

My feelings as Locknut.

My thanks to all of you for trying to answer this; good book too by Mr. Miller