For anyone wanting to build one, there's a simple ESR meter schematic
and some construction data at:
http://www.albany.net/~gwoods/esr_meter/esr_meter_index.html
However it doesn't say what the calibration procedure is so I'm not sure
how you're supposed to do initial calibration of the unit without a
known-good ESR meter to use for reference...
cheers
Jules