Wait, did Larry really flip the pins, or did he just pull them out and swap them side to side? Because the hinge pin trick is usually about swapping the top and bottom pins so the worn spot sits in a fresh spot, not turning them upside down. Either way you got off cheap compared to my $40 lesson on a sticking door that just needed the strike plate moved a hair. What did Larry charge you for the wisdom?

That "half pound was the difference" line is what gets me, so how are you checking the analog beam before a critical pull? Do you zero it out and watch the pointer settle same as the digital, or is there a whole different feel to reading it?

People keep saying the internet is toxic but come on, a bird feeder cam? Getting mad at a grackle hanging upside down is a choice. If someone watches a dove eat seed for three minutes and decides it's a government plot, that says way more about them than about your camera. You turned off comments for a week and someone made a video about it, that's not a war zone, that's like five guys with too much free time. Real problems don't get solved by arguing about spray trails behind a bird. Just post the fat dove and let the weirdos wear themselves out.