In January of 2000 Robin UK was acquired by Fluke Europe, you can find a few testers branded as Robin Fluke like the 1652 Multi Function Tester. Shortly after the acquisition many of the core Robin team left & started Kewtech which still design & manufacture electrical test equipment to this day.
I really like these tea break fixes! Shorter videos to watch before bed, but still just as interesting! It's pretty wild how well made some of these older products are to stay functional for as long as they have.
I hope you're enjoying the hot weather in the UK Vince i hope you get the Rolls finished you're doing good with it so far. It's also nice to see you work on other things which must be a pain in the behind to do while you're working on a car.
Great video, my OM1000 up and running again. BUT NOTE - before you start, scroll to 8:40 and note the little black carbon contacts that you will lose if you don't spot them!! Mine are lost - beep didn't work! I rolled silver foil into two tiny tubes and managed to insert them instead. All good, what a fix!
Very nice fix :) I have yellow multimeter too from late 90's, but mine is Biltema brand, and simpler one, for example it doesn't have the beeper. Couple of years ago one lead broke off inside the insulator because of corrosion, so haven't used it anymore. Got a new multimeter, but haven't thrown the old one away. Maybe I'll find new leads for it. It has a 9V battery inside it and replacing it requires opening the case.
Nice that we have the normal repairs back... i know you had 3 multimeters that one the normal that is over to the car and where the other one that you fixed went?
Great work as always Vince! By chance would you maybe revisit it some time and put on the new leads you had mentioned? I would honestly love to see it fully restored. Oh and a little advice for the back of it from a painters point of view. Take some matte varnish and put a couple coats on it. Just on the outside, not the inside. It will help it stay clean, and also it works as a bit of a protectant from the elements, which will intern keep it working longer. If you ever want to give it a go. But I enjoyed the video, as I do with all of them. Keep up the great work, and looking forward to the next Rolls video! God Bless my friend.
I'm an electrician by trade, we had all Robin testers and we later upgraded to Fluke which were labelled as both Fluke Robin. Always my favourite brand for test equipment.
Was a tad more than a tea break fix but I certainly enjoyed it. I do lament over the loss somewhere of a meter I had from 1988, my first auto-ranging LCD one. No idea where I lost it. Nice to see the Hakko making an appearance, hope you're finding it a useful addition. Thanks again for the entertainment.
Thanks for watching Paul. I'm loving the Hakko, definitely more powerful at transferring the heat than my old one AND heats up super quick. I haven't used it that much due to the car taking over my life, but as the weather turns cold and wet the blue mat videos will be back with gusto👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince moving to the heater-in-cartridge system is definitely a big shift from the old style; makes it hard to go back too. I ended up buying a second one so that I could have both the normal size tips and a micro pencil at the same time. While they're not the top-grade gear ( like JBC ) I'm certainly not regretting my investment.
@@Mymatevince Should be interesting, 0201 parts will be no trouble now. I do often have to use my hotair station at 250'C to give it a heat-assist so that the PCB doesn't overburden the tip in terms of heat drain. Will be interesting to see what you use it on first.
The curse of the battery strikes again. Well done Vince ... although you have left me guessing if the mixer you you referred to was in the kitchen, in your hifi rack, or full of cement 😀👍. ... keep ‘em guessing.
I do allot of electrical work on motorcycles and automotive, I am totally dependent on my multi meter. Goes to show how much we take these things for granted! Had to re-wire my motorcycle after doing a paint job and needed my meter to trace wiring and test circuits. Would have been a nightmare without a meter!
Im curious how you determine if a fix is a tea break fix.. I assumed earlier that it was after the fact based on the time taken, but that doesnt seem to be the case.. Do you just educated guess and set a limit? What if a tea break fix takes longer than expected?
Educated guess really and then if it is longer than expected then I have to edit it heavily. I have a 'tea break fix' Internet radio coming up in a couple of weeks that should have been a trying to fix due to the length of time it took👍👍👍
Even though I have a modern new Lidl's crimp set and stripper claws my main go to is an old old British Rail "duckbill" stripper that you can by feel alone strip as much or as little as you want and these things must be from the 60's or 70's and apart from stoning the wire cutter section and a gentle stoning on the cutty part of the duckbill's jaws and a drop of steam compound oil in the movey bits, the thing is like new in action. I don't get on with the modern claw type, very fiddly to get it right and the adjustment on the length is too easily moved which can be tedious having to reset it each strip.
It's in the car which is around my dad's house. I wanted to get a DJ mixer 'trying to fix' video done and I didn't want to have to drive over there to collect everything👍👍👍
hello, I have BK Precision 390A, my multimeter starts to beep as soon as I turn it on. there is 0.6v volts on the buzzer all the time. fuses are good. any ideas?
Is that the multimeter I suggested all them years ago on soldering some needles to the probes as you were struggling with crossed terminals on some of the electronics you were working on at the time? Wished you could come and fix my broken yellow Robin, the Relianty type as its got a broken A frame and a £300 new part of hoping my garages welder can pull some magic out of his machines and weld in a new section, just done the kingpin and wheel bearing, drives like a roller skate on black ice... verra dangerous :(
@16:28 - The meter beep. I used to be able to here the beeps from your meters, but I am completely unable to hear them now. I'm not sure if it's the mic or the camera changes, but it's totally inaudible to me any more.
Maybe with that working you could now get your multimeters from the RR and put that one in there. Or just take it with you in case of a rather unique emergency!
A sweet fruit-flavoured liquid concentrate drink to which you add water (to your personal taste). Also called squash. Think of it like a syrup which you dilute with water.
6:19 don't do that, it's a mistake, you are removing the nickel coating from the contacts. You just need to clean and polish it. Unused devices should have the batteries removed to prevent this accumulation of dirt.
You need a multimeter to diagnose a multimeter, the definition of irony, I thought you were going to desolder the wires with a magnifying glass and the sun we are having in the U.K. haha
In January of 2000 Robin UK was acquired by Fluke Europe, you can find a few testers branded as Robin Fluke like the 1652 Multi Function Tester.
Shortly after the acquisition many of the core Robin team left & started Kewtech which still design & manufacture electrical test equipment to this day.
Are Robin good
Vince you make even the smallest of repairs fun to watch thx for another video
I hate it when my meter dies, now I keep a backup. Good to see you Vince!
Seeing the blue matt again makes me happy. The car stuff is fun to watch, but the blue matt is my favorite. Keep up the great work!
I've got one of those blue mat's also!
@@BuyitFixit Me too! I use it for a desktop surface. Love it too!
I really like these tea break fixes! Shorter videos to watch before bed, but still just as interesting! It's pretty wild how well made some of these older products are to stay functional for as long as they have.
I hope you're enjoying the hot weather in the UK Vince i hope you get the Rolls finished you're doing good with it so far. It's also nice to see you work on other things which must be a pain in the behind to do while you're working on a car.
He really is doing a good job on the Rolls! I love watching the series, I am fascinated by the engineering of those cars
A whole bunch of repairs in one little project, Well done!
Yes I remember this when Vince used this on the first trying to fix job lot!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another nice little fix vince. Well done!
Nail cutters, scissors.... Next you will be soldering (melting solder points) using sunglight through a magnifying glass!!! Great work =D
🤣👍👍👍
Great video, my OM1000 up and running again. BUT NOTE - before you start, scroll to 8:40 and note the little black carbon contacts that you will lose if you don't spot them!! Mine are lost - beep didn't work! I rolled silver foil into two tiny tubes and managed to insert them instead. All good, what a fix!
Back to the roots, Vince. Nice work.
Nice tea break repair.
Good job mate.
Very nice fix :)
I have yellow multimeter too from late 90's, but mine is Biltema brand, and simpler one, for example it doesn't have the beeper.
Couple of years ago one lead broke off inside the insulator because of corrosion, so haven't used it anymore.
Got a new multimeter, but haven't thrown the old one away. Maybe I'll find new leads for it.
It has a 9V battery inside it and replacing it requires opening the case.
Love how it gets it color back while fast wiping
lol not seen that old robin in a while "Treat that poor old testmeter to some new leads you skinflint" :D
Ahhhhh, hello blue mat! 🙂
Nice that we have the normal repairs back... i know you had 3 multimeters that one the normal that is over to the car and where the other one that you fixed went?
Great work as always Vince! By chance would you maybe revisit it some time and put on the new leads you had mentioned? I would honestly love to see it fully restored. Oh and a little advice for the back of it from a painters point of view. Take some matte varnish and put a couple coats on it. Just on the outside, not the inside. It will help it stay clean, and also it works as a bit of a protectant from the elements, which will intern keep it working longer. If you ever want to give it a go. But I enjoyed the video, as I do with all of them. Keep up the great work, and looking forward to the next Rolls video! God Bless my friend.
Haha sounds well posh mate ' my other meter is in the Rolls Royce " 😂😂
Love the music, felt like I was playing Fallout again.
Fallout 4 was a good game!
I'm an electrician by trade, we had all Robin testers and we later upgraded to Fluke which were labelled as both Fluke Robin.
Always my favourite brand for test equipment.
I have 3 multimeters,for the same reason as you,i always make sure i have a working one near by !
I also have 3! all in different places, saves me having to go looking for a one.
@@BuyitFixit Exactly 😊
Was a tad more than a tea break fix but I certainly enjoyed it. I do lament over the loss somewhere of a meter I had from 1988, my first auto-ranging LCD one. No idea where I lost it.
Nice to see the Hakko making an appearance, hope you're finding it a useful addition.
Thanks again for the entertainment.
Nice o see you here too Paul :-D
Thanks for watching Paul. I'm loving the Hakko, definitely more powerful at transferring the heat than my old one AND heats up super quick. I haven't used it that much due to the car taking over my life, but as the weather turns cold and wet the blue mat videos will be back with gusto👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince moving to the heater-in-cartridge system is definitely a big shift from the old style; makes it hard to go back too. I ended up buying a second one so that I could have both the normal size tips and a micro pencil at the same time. While they're not the top-grade gear ( like JBC ) I'm certainly not regretting my investment.
@@pldaniels I got a micro pencil too, it's tiny, looking forward to finally using it👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince Should be interesting, 0201 parts will be no trouble now.
I do often have to use my hotair station at 250'C to give it a heat-assist so that the PCB doesn't overburden the tip in terms of heat drain.
Will be interesting to see what you use it on first.
nice repair 👍👍👍
Thanks AR👍👍👍
Great video
The curse of the battery strikes again. Well done Vince ... although you have left me guessing if the mixer you you referred to was in the kitchen, in your hifi rack, or full of cement 😀👍. ... keep ‘em guessing.
🤣 BEHRINGER one Chris, like a DJ one. It will be released next week hopefully👍👍👍
Nice video Vince, reminds me of my old meter that my Nan bought for me in 1994 from Tandy's 😊
Great fix there Vince another job well done 👍
Nice fix Vince I, Robin were the leaders once upon a time,
Kodak in treacle plumstead I’m guessing? I knew a Chris Pittuck that worked there ...
No, the Harrow plant Cucumber. It's gone now, slowly being changed into a massive housing estate...Great news for the traffic situation 🤣👍
@@Mymatevince oh I didn’t know that one lol, great videos Vince keep em coming 👍
Cheers Gary
Nice one
very fun! so... when you going to fix the leads vince?
Nice vid Vince ☺️
I do allot of electrical work on motorcycles and automotive, I am totally dependent on my multi meter. Goes to show how much we take these things for granted! Had to re-wire my motorcycle after doing a paint job and needed my meter to trace wiring and test circuits. Would have been a nightmare without a meter!
Yes, dead in the water without a multimeter 😂. Enjoyed this!
Hi Vince
Im curious how you determine if a fix is a tea break fix.. I assumed earlier that it was after the fact based on the time taken, but that doesnt seem to be the case.. Do you just educated guess and set a limit? What if a tea break fix takes longer than expected?
Educated guess really and then if it is longer than expected then I have to edit it heavily. I have a 'tea break fix' Internet radio coming up in a couple of weeks that should have been a trying to fix due to the length of time it took👍👍👍
Good to know, thanks for getting back!
Sweet
Hi good. Video
Even though I have a modern new Lidl's crimp set and stripper claws my main go to is an old old British Rail "duckbill" stripper that you can by feel alone strip as much or as little as you want and these things must be from the 60's or 70's and apart from stoning the wire cutter section and a gentle stoning on the cutty part of the duckbill's jaws and a drop of steam compound oil in the movey bits, the thing is like new in action. I don't get on with the modern claw type, very fiddly to get it right and the adjustment on the length is too easily moved which can be tedious having to reset it each strip.
Vince ! you know you've made it when you can say " my Fluke meter is in the Rolls Royce "
Rolls Royces, hoses and this. Preferred the way it was.
I've never seen anything made in Japan that wasn't high quality!
I was kind of hoping Vince would say that the soldering iron was in the Rolls, just to see how he would try to solder the wires without it.
With the heat gun i think 😂
Nunca vi um multimetro assim.
Almost forgot that you are fixing other things then Rolls Royce Lmao🤣
I like that one cause is more slim I hardly see them like that
@1:23 - You can always use bare LED bulbs to test (roughly) the quality of coin cell batteries.
What happened to your regular test meter ? You said you don't have one to test those little Circle black things .
It's in the car which is around my dad's house. I wanted to get a DJ mixer 'trying to fix' video done and I didn't want to have to drive over there to collect everything👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince I figured that 1 that it was in the vehicle Or you lost it haha
hello, I have BK Precision 390A, my multimeter starts to beep as soon as I turn it on. there is 0.6v volts on the buzzer all the time. fuses are good. any ideas?
Now I know where the first ipods got their design.
Just wondering why you kept putting the circlip back on when it wasn't fully fixed. no offence intended just curious Vince ? Love your vids matey.
Is that the multimeter I suggested all them years ago on soldering some needles to the probes as you were struggling with crossed terminals on some of the electronics you were working on at the time? Wished you could come and fix my broken yellow Robin, the Relianty type as its got a broken A frame and a £300 new part of hoping my garages welder can pull some magic out of his machines and weld in a new section, just done the kingpin and wheel bearing, drives like a roller skate on black ice... verra dangerous :(
It is Ian, the very same multimeter👍👍
@16:28 - The meter beep. I used to be able to here the beeps from your meters, but I am completely unable to hear them now. I'm not sure if it's the mic or the camera changes, but it's totally inaudible to me any more.
Got another good 20 years in that
Maybe with that working you could now get your multimeters from the RR and put that one in there. Or just take it with you in case of a rather unique emergency!
❤
I’m guessing the potentiometer is to zero your test leads when measuring ohms.
Probably as you say, but I'd guess set at the factory as you wouldn't be pulling the plastic coating off to adjust it normally.
You can buy leads on ebay
I was thinking the same, cheap set of leads, chop the ends off, solder them on.
Pronounced peezo buzzer, great little fix 👍
I have a very big question. Exactly what is a Cordial? I know its a drink but thats all i know.
A sweet fruit-flavoured liquid concentrate drink to which you add water (to your personal taste). Also called squash. Think of it like a syrup which you dilute with water.
@@Paperghost Thank you very much, I have heard this term most of my life, but never knew exactly what it was other than it was a drink.
What's the songs title that we here close to the end of the video?
Vince I recomend getting a wire stripper as it’s much easeier than using scissors to strip the wires!
In the video he says he currently doesn’t have any
@@snppls Ik but this was a suggestion to get one after the video!
👏👏👏👏
I would clean every thing contacts the whole board before putting back together
When one ownes a rolls royce one must keep half of ones shit in each place 😀 roflmao
Tea break. Fix. Faulty. Old. Robin. Multimeter. Repair
Please do the Rolls Royce coin trick!
Its an E clip, not a circlip! And yes Robin are still going as Robin Amprobe Ltd.
This is why you have to have two meters and you have to fix the first as soon as it breaks.
Thinking it's a easy fix and ends up overhauling his vintage multimeter
i did take shrimp soup in a cup i how that works instead of tea :D
😁
6:19 don't do that, it's a mistake, you are removing the nickel coating from the contacts. You just need to clean and polish it. Unused devices should have the batteries removed to prevent this accumulation of dirt.
Lucky the IPA is not in the Rolls.
I bet he has a bottle stashed there as well, right next to his sanity.
🤣👍
You need a multimeter to diagnose a multimeter, the definition of irony, I thought you were going to desolder the wires with a magnifying glass and the sun we are having in the U.K. haha
Hurrah! Not a car 😂
T-Bag repair????? 🤔
cant you just take it of the roller like ?
Back then the things were made zo last as long as possible. Today people just throw away things just because the battery is a little low
Turkish subtitle please
Huh
Варвар.
A good brand should probably not release such a crappy product. But hey, nice fix.