Maybe "we" should crowd fund a buyout... and convert back to oldsckool Radioshack with HeathKits, arcades, and pinball machines for sale!
Yeah - I know... not practical; but would still rock in my opinion.

Always a RS fan... still have a few of their Electronic "build" kits running around in a closet somewhere. Still have a RS multimeter or two... and a pair of logic probes and pulsers.

IMHO; they lost their way when they went nearly full on Cell Phone. They couldn't be trusted anymore except for the occasional resistor or switch for some project. That said; I still wish one or two existed in the wild. It'd be nice to see them resurrect with a renewed focus on the nerdy things in life... like radios, heathkits, and other STEM type products. But I'm not sure enough people would be interested in that kind of a store.

I think I still have a working radio shack dvm in my pinball toolbox. I need to go pull out the 9v... It's probably leaking from age.

I'm stunned...
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Which triggered a picture fest of the radio shack test equipment I still have. The DVM with the battery from above:
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I still have a set of Logic Probes and Pulsers:
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And a rather sad needle meter:
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which is non-functional for an obvious reason:
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now; I'm debating if I should re-create this board ... and bring the poor thing back to the land of the living.

yeah; that looks correct. I also did a good search and found a lot of information as well.
I've already CA glued the PCB back together and done a solder bridge repair.
My concern is the traces which control the switch are broken and required solder bridges. I'm not sure they will hold up to the switching action long term.
A 1meg ohm 1% 1/4 watt and a 200k 1% 1/4watt did not survive the break.

Apparently these multimeters were available as a kit build back in the day.
Probes are long since gone but it appears they may be available on ebay.

What is really scary is this meter and most like it have NO FUSES. :S

Was about to accuse you of unclean computing... But nope.
That is the dumbest move I've ever seen a brand make

I've bowed to peer pressure and repaired the meter. I bought some 1% replacements (the 1Mohm and 200k resistors) from Digikey in my last order and repaired all of the broken traces.

Now; I'm left wondering what to do about the battery. The obvious answer is ... just leave the batteries out and put it on the desk for show and tell.
But I do want the meter to work too. I've sworn myself off of those idiotic, low quality, Duracell branded batteries. I've had them corrode in packages, devices, pinball machines all before their expiration date. Like others I've converted most of my pinball machines and devices to Lithium Energizers as they have vents and I haven't seen one leak.

That said; the Lithium Energizers don't work in this meter. I think the meter is designed for heavy duty; regular Alkaline batteries at exactly 1.5V (for all ranges of ohms except 10k [which uses the 9v] ). The Li Energizer I put in the meter causes me to be unable to zero the ohm reading... and according to my other DMM; the battery voltage measures at 1.7V which explains why.

Anyone know of a leak resistant AA battery preferably rechargeable which puts out Alkaline bog-standard 1.5V? Bonus points to those who can point me to an Amazon prime product!

looked them up... reviews are kinda mixed.
The biggest problem tho; is they only have them in 48packs right now.
I don't need that many. Really; one for this meter.