Escaped aborning.
"Make your own" details added.

> Anyway, I'm trying to get this thing into calibration as best I can.
> My only other meter is a 3.5 digit Radio Shack meter that's at least
> a
> decade old, so it's not much good as a calibration reference.
>
> 0 V is pretty easy to obtain.   Any creative ideas on how to get
> other
> reference voltages to calibrate this meter?

Weston Standard Cell.

About +/- 0.1% accuracy.
Make your own (1967 style)

        http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/transactions/PDF/6112.pdf

Involves a few nasty chemicals but relatively easy to do.
Making one would be something of an effort.
Making many would not be too much harder.

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Buy this one.
Quick and far from dirty. If it still works.
Saturated Weston cells tend to have constant voltage. Non saturated
drift with time.

        http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29833&item=6528655550&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

5 days to go, $US9.99 and no bids.

May be easier to find someone with an accurate meter :-)

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Fascinating letter on Weston history

        http://weston.ftldesign.com/MulhernLetter/letter.htm





        RM

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