Wasted $500 on a fancy paint mixing system that was totally unnecessary

I bought one of those high end digital paint mixing scales for my shop last month, thinking it would speed up my custom color matches. Turns out a simple graduated cylinder and my old formula cards do the same job better, and now the thing just sits on my shelf gathering dust. Has anyone else fallen for expensive equipment that turned out to be a waste of cash?

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maxpalmer13d ago

Hang on, is it really possible that your graduated cylinders and formula cards are giving you the same precision every single time? I mean, I get that the old methods are comfortable and all, but digital scales remove human error from the equation. You might be getting away with "close enough" right now without even realizing how much time you're wasting on re-mixing batches that come out slightly off. Plus, there's a learning curve to any new tool, and most people give up on them way too fast. If you had stuck with it for another week or two, you might have found it actually cuts your mixing time by half once you get the workflow down. I say plug it back in and give it a real chance before calling it a dead loss.

wilson.jana13d ago

Oh man, I can totally picture that fancy digital scale just sitting there judging you every time you walk past it. I did something similar a couple years back with a "high tech" spray gun cleaning station that was supposed to save time and solvent. Spoiler alert: it just clogged up after three uses and now I'm back to my old bucket and brush method like a caveman. At least your system looked cool on the shelf for a while before the dust settled in, right?