Vintage DMM

[Guest123]

Found it in an ex RR engineers kit in an attic......anyone know how old it is???

 

[Mr Mark Sparks]

possibly not as old as it looks mr google told me they are still available in the usa

btw here are the instructions

Fluke 8060A True RMS Multi Meter Instruction Manual

 

[pennywise]

The manual was first published in 1997 by the looks of it. It does look like an early mobile phone though lol

 

[grantr37]

That is one of the first Fluke Digital multimeters that came out back in about 1983-1984 with a 7 segment display, you have landed lucky with that find, providing that you havent thrown it away that is, as its worth about 800 pounds, the only place that these have really turned up is in colleges up until about 2004, having had them for donkeys years and never really thrown out anything, they started getting stolen from Electronics workshops and the Colleges clocked that they were collectables and hastily took the remaining ones and sold them to fund nice shiney new ones, these same college workshops also turned out some collectable gems in the form of some of the earliest 1977-1988 computers, which are now worth serious money, an original Apple computer from 1977 sold for about 100k last year in an auction...and Colleges were using these as pass around scrap and examples to tinker about with ....
As far as I know, Fluke run a bit of their website where they like to see where in the world their oldest kit is still in use or retained by people and they have been known to send out shiney new meters to people who contact them and tell their story about how/where they came accross or found them...
A collector would chew straight through your tool box , contents included, to get one of these...

 

[Lofty]

Hi,
Had one of those in the mid eighties, '85-'86 till somebody nicked it.

Was a good meter in it's time, if it works hold onto it.

Cheers,
Lofty

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Had one about 20 years ago, might still have it knocking about somewhere.
Got myself a new yellow one when the dog chewed it up.

 

[accordfire]

Vintage.....just what I needed to feel really damn old today lol!

Yeah - like the others, had one in the 80's - was my first "serious" DMM - and I was really peed off they took my AVO8 out of my hands (had it literally an hour)...and put one of these in....."digital is the way ahead"......how we all laughed. Really, we all laughed - how could you really, really get a true RMS reading from a digital display - you needed a decent analogue meter for that - and it was something the AVO excelled at.

To be fair, it did a reasonable job - for most purposes accurate enough on RMS - compared to the AVO, which was always going to be that "little bit" more accurate.

Was quite sad that I couldn't accidentally "leave it on site" or "hand it to another guy, honest" before I left - the company I went to gave us Maplin "Gold" meters, chosen because, I quote "it had a transistor checker".......not to mention over six hundred quid a unit cheaper, huh? And crap. Most of those got broken regularly, and they finally gave in and started buying baby Fluke's 73's I think....though I left there with a Fluke 77....

As others have said, if you've got one that still works- worth big bucks mate.

 

[Guest123]

Cheers lads.....I had no idea.

 

[sean_ork]

Cheers lads.....I had no idea.

nor does the chap who thinks it's worth 800 quid ;-)

 

[grantr37]

25 Years of DMMS

here you go.....

 

[sean_ork]

25 Years of DMMS

here you go.....

where did you get it being worth 800 squid from ?

 

[grantr37]

you on here just to annoy me? I have seen them sold for 800 pounds before, with a cerry case and leaflet, the oldest ones from 1977 have sold for more, this one is circa 1982/early 1983, probably before you were born.

 

[sean_ork]

you on here just to annoy me? I have seen them sold for 800 pounds before, with a cerry case and leaflet, the oldest ones from 1977 have sold for more, this one is circa 1982/early 1983, probably before you were born.

i'm not here to annoy anyone, whatever gave you that idea ?

for what it's worth I was born in 1966, although i fail to see why that is relevant

i questioned how you came to that price simply because i have a number of identical Fluke testers from approximatively that era stored away in the garage, all of which were unused on a large job from many moons ago - and most are still within their unopened packaging as delivered direct from Fluke

perhaps you could provide some form of evidence in support of that price quoted as i'd like to offer them on ebay and would prefer not to be condemned as a numpty for setting a 500 squid reserve when in fact they might only be worth a few beer tokens

 

[alarm man]

right you 2,bed now,no supper or playstations..

 

[sean_ork]

right you 2,bed now,no supper or playstations..

sorry Dad