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More like a buck and a quarter. But I think that charging a tax on non-taxable services is illegal. I didn't know that they had tested it, or didn't get that from what the auction said, but that's reassuring. However your comment below that "It worked just the way I hoped it would" isn't very reassuring to me because I've had to jump thru so many hoops so far and I'm still not done with the transaction. Just think about this: I'm dealing with less than a hundred, but just imagine what kind of knot the guy has in his stomach who is buying a $4000 or more instrument from them! He must feel like a pretzel!

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Thanks. Last year I ordered some from either them or some other similar electronics distrib, and they said they were out of stock with no date for an ETA. So I cancelled. I think that the smaller dealers like Hosfelt are ordering small quantities from another distrib and can't possibly keep enough in stock, and neither can the distrib they're ordering from. In other words, the supply can't possibly keep up with the demand. But it's not like we can't live without them.

Nah! Tucker has been around for 40 years. They aren't going to try and blow their reputation over a $100 sale. The hoops you have been subjected to are minor clerical errors. $1.25 surely isn't going to sour this deal for you. You could have paid $250 for the same DMM and taken the same risk...

I'll repeat myself:

-Chuck

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I also ordered a couple sets of the Kelvin clips from Hosfelt some time ago. THey were out of stock at the time I ordered them, but I really wanted thm, so I let them stay on backorder. They finally arrived some months later. They are not high quality clips.. held together by a small rubber band that provides the "spring" tension. But they do work, and for the price, they are good enough, since I don't use them in a production environment.

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Sounds like I'm fortunate to have cancelled my order. I can make a set that's just as good.

BTW, it's against the law to hold someone's order for more than 8 weeks(?) without informing the buyer that he has the option of cancelling or getting a refund. Or else allowing the seller to hold the money until the items arrive.

Seems to me that anyone could kludge some up by using (plastic) clothespins, copper (sticky on one side) tape, and wire. Quality would be at least as good. Tinning the copper tape would make it less suceptable to oxidation and easier to keep clean. Or get "fancy" and use thin galvanized sheet metal cut into narrow strips; bend to fit around each jaw, solder on the leads and then epozy the strips to the jaws.

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The galvanic action between different metals makes the readings inaccurate. Therefore using solder, steel, or zinc coated steel, is absolutely out of the question.

So on one side, one is going from (say) copper to galvanized; the other side is the opposite; tends to cancel out. The original "cheapie" is just as bad on the contacts; i just made suggestions for a more robust QND set (no rubber bands). Now if there is a source for gold plated shim stock or equivalent, then at least the contacts would be better. BUT. *Somewhere* in the full circuit, the metal used WILL change from gold to something else (maybe copper???). Therefore the most expensive Kelvin clips have the !same! galvanic and thermoelectric problems.