"Dave D" writes:

"Mike Muderick" wrote in message
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I have a battery tester meter (Mallory) that came from a retail store. The
meter is magnetized and now sits center scale, instead of over to the
left.
Any solutions to return it to it's normal state. I tried reverse
polarity-
it goes to the left, but then returns to center.

thanks

Sounds more like some kind of mechanical failure, I've never heard of
magnetism causing that margin of error.

Magentism won't affect a normal D'Arsonval meter movement as far as
zero position is concerned.

If you examine it closely, there will probably be an obvious cause like
a bent needle or misadjusted zero screw.

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