@mrremedy You can get the curricular slide rule for aviation - typically for weights and spg of liquids (aka, how heavy is my Airplane with X fuel).
See: E6-B flight computer
This One, a long time I have I watched. All this life has he looked away to future, to the horizon. Never his Mind on where he was! what he was doing!
Yoda
@zander Yup, I liked nostalgic feel of the Simpson Meter (Etched/Painted Writing) Baklite case, snappy clicky knobs. But you're absolutely right, Riding on the road with that VOM woud definitely destroy it, ore at least de-calibrate it.
I picked up a couple of cheapy DMMs from Harbor Freight that seem to work great for simple low voltage systems.
They still going after 6 years. Not to shabby for the price. 😀
-d