Yeah, that "give" feeling is wild once you key into it, right? I started doing the same with my lug nuts and now I barely use the clicker on anything under 150 ft-lbs. You can almost feel the bolt stretch a hair before it stops, like the threads are telling you they're done. Takes a while to trust it though, especially on stuff you really don't want snapping off.

Man that sucks, but honestly you're not alone. I did the same thing with a HVLP gun a few years back, kept chasing bad finishes until I realized my compressor tank had been sitting with water in it for months. Now I drain the tank every morning before I start and hit the regulator with a blow gun once a week, just takes a minute but saves a ton of headache. Those moisture traps fill up way faster than people think, especially in the PNW where the air's already thick.

Whoa, that's a great find! I actually heard a similar story from an old avionics guy at a trade show a few years back. He swore by a sticky note that said "the voltage looks fine but the rise time is lying to you" and it saved him a whole week of chasing a ghost in an autopilot servo. It's wild how those guys learned to trust the raw signal over the fancy display, especially when the newer gear smooths everything out too much. Your 40 millivolt drop makes total sense, those digital readouts just average things out and hide the real failures.

Used to trust the noise over my own eyes, but now I get why you build those overrides.

And honestly the cinematic stuff feels like it works better on the surface but trust is built way slower than a single video, people are watching for actual change not just a good production. The short text apology at least felt honest in its awkwardness, like they were stumbling over their own screw up instead of hiring a team to polish the mess. Weirdly enough, the cheap lazy apology might stick more because it matches the cheap lazy mistake.