I recently ordered a bunch of different test lead terminals and three
pocket meters from banggood. We'll see!

Jim

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:34 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Felder industries comes through with simple and obvious solution, thanks
> :-)
>
> Most of my banggood buys have been small electronic things, little control
> boards etc. They are being worked on as we speak in the top secret R&D labs
> of Bell International, for a vanagon application.
>
> A recent purchase that I'm pretty happy with is a hand help multimeter. I
> have three multimeters; a bench top Phillips, a small inexpensive one kept
> in the van, and a regular sized hand held that was the main workhorse. But
> that one got bites off the island by the other two when it wouldn't agree
> even after battery change.
>
> The new multimeter has all the features you expect, and a couple more I
> really like. Has a big LCD screen with a timed back light feature. Oh I
> really like that. Also has a sensor on one end that detects live AC
> circuits. Both with a beep and a led scale.
> As you'd expect from an inexpensive meter the test leads are not the best.
> Easy enough to swap in some nicer ones ( ie more supple).
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ordered! My Banggood orders have ranged from a set of jeweler's
> screwdrivers I threw in the trash without as soon as I saw them up to some
> of the best little devices for very little money.
>
> RE the screw holes from the broken leg strut: at one time Felder
> Industries made me some paint that exactly matched the color of the Westy
> interior surfaces. I filled and painted over some damage and I'd give you 5
> bucks if you could find them.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:16 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Coincidentally to the recent hatch strut discussion, today I got another
> one of my Chinese mail deliveries.
>
> I'm totally hooked on small purchase from banggood. I mean, it's not like
> everything is great but the expense is small and many of the things turn
> out pretty damn good,
>
> This package was 4 short gas charged struts. I used one of them this
> afternoon to finally replace the broken leg type support on the kitchen
> unit lid.
>
> Blog post here
>
> https://shufti.blog/2017/03/30/vanagon-kitchen-unit-lid-strut-support/
>
> Alistair
>
>