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My rotary laser took a dive and cost me a full day of work
Last Tuesday in Tacoma my PLS-5 rotary laser just stopped leveling mid-layout for a retaining wall. I spent 6 hours troubleshooting the receiver, the tripod, even swapped batteries twice before I found out the internal pendulum got knocked loose from a bump in my truck. Has anyone else had a self-leveling laser break on the inside with no visible damage?
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ben_fisher18d ago
That "no visible damage" part is the worst, isn't it. It happens with so much stuff now, phones that look fine but the board is fried, mowers that crank and run rough because some tiny spring inside gave up. We keep building things where the guts are the weak spot and the outside looks perfect, so you stand there checking everything you can actually see while the real problem is buried. The bump in the truck is probably what did it too, those rides are brutal on pendulums and nobody warns you. Six hours chasing the wrong stuff stings, but at least now you know the drill for next time.
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