I then went on to test several PSU's current limit response, and it performed well.
I had found that occasionally one of the outputs was not on as indicated, and that it turned on when I turned the output on and off again. No major problem, but an irritation. Over the weekend I was measuring its output capacitance with a different meter; sometimes it showed a plausible capacitance, sometimes zero. Touching the banana lead or the PSU's socket was sufficient to flip between the two; clearly this needed investigating. Perhaps that was why the meter was sold on Gumtree rather than fleabay.
So off the shelf it came, with me being surprised (again) that it didn't have a handle on the case's top. Took out the traditional screws on the rear panel, but the lid wouldn't budge. After a while I spotted these wretched plastic snap rivets on the side.
It wasn't difficult to spot the problem: I used fingertips to unscrew the left hand banana plug's nut.
I couldn't get a spanner in there to tighten it up, so the front panel had to be shifted.
Looking at the entire chassis, the base and rear panel are traditional solid sheet metal, but the top, two key regulator PCBs and the front panel are held in place by a three small L-sections and more of those wretched plastic slivers. No wonder there wasn't a carrying handle on the lid.
Half of me admires the Ikea-style value engineering, half of me doesn't.
Anyway, back together and back on the shelf. Still like it and think it was good value
