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My wife's 4K monitor died a few months ago. They'd been pondering a new one anyway, so that forced the decision.
So I took the broken one to work and asked my electrician buddy if he could run a multimeter over it.
One 8p capacitor later and now I have a 4K monitor as well.
I have one of those digital measurement calipers. I dropped it and the screen went wonky. I took it apart, one of the zebra connectors had moved a bit. Put it back in place, put the thing back together and I'm back to measuring with it. Didn't cost anything except maybe 30 minutes of time.
I love the feeling of fixing shit.
I got old-school calipers with a vernier scale because I was sick and tired of replacing the coin cell batteries in the digital ones.
If you buy a decent digital one, they actually turn off when you press the off button, and the battery lasts a long time. The cheap ones just turn the display off, and the batterty dies like every week.
These days, even if you pay more you still risk getting something that isn't "decent" a lot of the time anyway, and I'm not willing to pay a lot more for something like Mitutoyo that actually has brand reputation.
Search Amazon for a knife sharpening stone, all the pictures that look the same are the exact same product at vastly differing prices.
I just sharpen my knives in the underside of a shitty ceramic mug or plate. Have been thinking of using a slate roof tile as they are bigger.
Yeah I have like 8 different ones. I have a fancy Mitutoyo in a nice wooden box that I use on special occasions and a whole bunch of others that are more or less beat up. I use the digital one's for quick checks on stuff like brake disc thickness, where it doesnt matter if its off by 0.05mm etc