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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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