New tools you've bought recently?

[Curious Hound]

Improving my video recording equipment. Was hoping to see a discount on this for Amazon Prime days this week. That didn't happen. But I did get some accessories deeply discounted.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

That would cost me $730.00. What did it cost you?

 

[Curious Hound]

The bare camera was about that much. I got the "creator combo" which was over $900. I worked an extra day during the week of 4th of July and worked the holiday. My extra pay that week bought about 85% of the camera.

 

[Shran]

Made some progress on the welding trailer, I cut off part of the sides, the ramps, and a bunch of other junk. I'm ready to make light brackets for it but first I wanted to get the broken leaf springs fixed, repack the bearings, and swap tires (came with 4, two of them are basically junk.) I got all that done last night and I am sure glad I went through the bearings, they were pretty loose but was able to adjust them.

The trailer came with 500lb leaf springs and I think they were either junk to begin with or had been severely overloaded. Both were missing half of the bottom leaf and the top leaf on the passenger side was cracked. The welder weighs about 650lbs and the trailer itself weighs a fair bit so I went with 1000lb springs, I think that will be a bit more reasonable for the application.

 

[rumblecloud]

HVLP from HF. I'm a beginner. This should be ok for now...

 

[Shran]

Those Spectrum guns are nice, I would be shocked if you ever found a legitimate need to upgrade. I have two of the Black Widow ones - love em.

 

[rumblecloud]

Unfortunately, the Black Widows were a bit out of my price range

 

[Shran]

Unfortunately, the Black Widows were a bit out of my price range

I got lucky, one of them was in the bottom of a box of junk that I bought and the other was like $50 at a pawn shop (brand new.) I would have NEVER paid $180 for them.

I don't think they're much better than the standard Spectrum guns though. HF HVLP guns are confusing - I have probably 7 or 8 purple ones, one of the $70 silver ones, and I had a $25 green one too. There is virtually nothing internally that make the $70 gun better than the $16 purple one. The green one is actually worse because there's no adjustable packing around the needle and it has more cheap plastic parts.

I'd like to get my hands on one of the normal spectrum sprayers to disassemble and compare with the Black Widow for scientific purposes.