Man I feel this, my own receipt pile looks like a crime scene. I tell myself it's about saving time after long shifts, but honestly half the time I'm just too tired to even microwave something. That convenience tax adds up way faster than you notice.

Ray's 70% trick sounds like the difference between a controlled landing and just dropping the whole rig into the river soup.

Honestly, that JB Weld trick is the kind of hack that keeps my old appliances running on spite and a prayer. Shah.ben has a point about it maybe snapping, but sometimes you just need a cheap fix to buy time until the part actually comes in. My own repair history is basically a museum of questionable temporary solutions that became permanent. If it works for three weeks, you're already winning.

Maybe the page numbers got mixed up, @robinson.jake.

Man, that's awesome. It's wild how one tiny tip from someone who's been there can save you months of frustration. Like @janac51 said about the waterfall, it's always the simple stuff we overlook. I got similar advice about lowering my ISO to reduce grain in night shots, changed everything.