Yeah, I picked up a mint fluke 87 from a friend of mine about 3-4 years ago, for $100, he was a mechanic in between jobs who didn't have a clue what to do with it when he WAS working. Sick little piece of equipment, when I was having power problems I put it on an outlet for 24 hours to record high and lows, etc. does some cool stuff.
You know when you really appreciate how good the fluke is? Just change the battery. A work of art inside.
I bought a rubber lined pelican case for it, was cheaper than the fluke pouch. I also have a craftsman clamp on ac/dc ammeter/dmm, it was like $99 and frankly it's a steaming POS. hardly ever wants to zero out, the on/off swich is so poorly designed it goes on and off by itself in the pouch, (until I glued a protective collar over it- how stupid are they that I have to do a mod like that myself?) though a clamping ammeter is a neat piece of equipment- rememember AC/DC is a lot more $$$ than AC only. With it you can track down leaks that make your car battery die, etc.
It replaced a craftsman graphic DMM I bought to check waveforms when setting up car stereos with multiple amps and processors, to avoid clipping. It, too, was a POS for the money.
Since my fluke is so nice I don't want to have it get ****ed up or stolen working on my car in the driveway it rarely gets used. What does? A little home depot card sized DMM, was like $20-25. Says "commercial electric pocket-pro HDM2" and does the job.
someday I will have a fluke scope-meter, they are the bomb. a color one if I'm still single and I have no wife to put the "common sense" brakes on.
FWIW it's nice to have a continuity tone feature on your multi-meter. I'm glad my fluke has that, I'd feel silly owning a $300 meter that only gets used to do a job a $5 battery checker could do.
At least the fluke's tone is DAMN LOUD.
Any serious wannabe tech also has this in his tool box: A Fox/Hound wire tracer. Look into one, they are like $60 at Fry's, when you really NEED one they pay for themselves the first time.
Cheers.