Tried a $40 ultrasonic cleaner from Harbor Freight for shutter assemblies, but my old-school manual cleaning kit still gets the job done better.

I was hoping to speed things up on a batch of old SLRs. The ultrasonic unit left a weird film on some blades and didn't touch the dried grease in the pivot points. Ended up redoing three of them with my basic set of heptane, rodico, and swabs. The extra 15 minutes of hands-on work per camera beats a re-do any day. Anyone else find that some new tools just don't live up to the hype for delicate work?

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the_xena8d ago

Honestly, it's like that with everything now. They sell you a gadget that's supposed to save time, but it just makes more work fixing its mistakes. My dad always said the right simple tool beats a fancy machine every time. You see it with kitchen stuff, car parts, all of it. That hands-on feel tells you more than any buzzy box ever could.

michael_coleman108d ago

Remember when things just worked?

ericj457d ago

My new smart doorbell keeps telling me it sees a package when it's just a leaf blowing by. I have to check the app more than I ever checked the porch! My old dumb doorbell just rang and that was the whole job. It's getting to the point where I miss my old TV remote with the actual buttons you could feel.