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Re: “There are LOTS of them that show the insides of altrnators and how to fix most common problems. Including the brushes...”
I'm watching one of the videos now and trying to follow along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhgyqm0wro
Unfortunately, one of the first things it says, at the 1'02" mark, is to put my multimeter into "diode" mode:

Nuts! What the #*^%! is that? My little voltmeter, cheap piece of 25-year-old junk that it undoubtedly is, doesn't have one.

I'm a packrat, though, and being a packrat does have its advantages. I hunted around and not only found another multimeter (bought at a garage sale for $2 not so long ago), it's better than the one I've been using. And it DOES have the setting I need.
So the alternator testing goes on.

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