Jez, mine is indeed older as 3 years. I noticed the later ESR 70 also had other leads. Idid not buy them but got them from a friend who had them surplus. So no clue about the age.
http://www.pa4tim.nl/?p=3319I solved the leads problem like you see in the link above. They aways got lost in between tools and gear so I put them in a cabinet with mains supply.
I realy like the component tester and I use it often. However for serious testing while designing or repairing I most times a use a Tek 576 curvetracer.
I took a 3 pin din-socket and pins from an IC socket. I presolderd the pins, and the inside of the socket, heated the pins from the socket and pushed the IC pins in. This is much more easy for testing.
Besides that I have mounted 3 banana sockets and I can plug my own clips in there.
The ESR 60 is also good, I have done a lot of ESR measurements and this little thing is rather accurate and realy measures ESR instead of impedance. The C function of the 60 and 70 is not good when caps are bad, so just in the situation you need the ESR meter.
I have done a lot of tests on bad caps using everything from impedance and LCR bridges to network analysers. The problem with bad caps ( DC leakage, loss of capacitance and high ESR) is that the C measurement using DC totaly goes wrong, the ESR and/or leakage is the cause of this.
In a new test a few weeks ago using the 60 and the 70 and some Multimeters, they all went wrong. You find that test on my site ( in english, measuring ESR on bad caps)
But sorry to say, in my opinion the LCR meter ( but I have an old version) is a disaster. For electrolityc caps it used DC again, under 10 pF ( or RF work conponents) it is not good either, but for allround LCR measure gismo to check if you got the good ceramic cap, or the value of a not RF coil, a resistor it is OK. The auto measurement is handy but not allways. Like this afternoon I was doing some tests on inductors and my IET DE-5000 thought I had a resistor (it was a GR 50-100 mH inductor) but in that case can switch off auto and choose a mode.
On all I do not like the auto power of. I understand it because the battery life. But it is not handy, picture a multimeter where you have to do this each measurement. It would drive me crazy.
Hope you see this as positive points, i do not mean to talk your stuff down. Just the opposite. I get many questions about sopes, multimeters, LCR and VNAs and several people bought the ESR meter after my advise.