I had a few moments to kill while in town for band practice today, so naturally (!) I wandered over to the local pawn shop. I wasn't really intending to buy anything, but in the tools case was this old BK Precision meter model 5360. Yeah, not the greatest meter ever, but it is a 50,000 count true RMS meter with a bar graph. It was marked $10, but when I asked the associate to let me turn it on, it showed a display test and then some kind of error message on every mode (not a low battery indicator). I couldn't quite read the message because, typically, the price sticker was on the display.
The guy scratched his head and said I could have it for $5. I was pretty sure it couldn't have anything seriously wrong with it if the display test worked, so I forked over the money and left with it.
In the parking lot, I carefully scraped off as much of the sticker as I could and switched the meter on again. OK, go ahead and make fun of me; I spent a minute staring at it and trying to figure out what kind of code this was; then it snapped into focus and I laughed. Easy fix. After replacing FUSE2, it works great.
This is an IP67 rated meter, so access to the innards was a bit weird. You're supposed to have a tool built into the bail stand to pop the protective covers off, but of course it was missing so I had to make do with a small screwdriver blade. the battery and fuses are easily reachable without any further manipulation, and it did have good HRC fuses inside. So, a win - even though the fuses are worth more than the meter cost.