Actually a buddy of mine tried that approach with his kitchen knives and ended up making them worse. He kept changing the angle without realizing it. @charles_baker28 is right though, if you can lock in that angle it works fine, but easier said than done I guess.

This kind of stuff happens way too often now. The world is full of things that look good online but fall apart when you actually try them.

You said "they always forget to mention the weird stuff" and man is that the TRUTH. @phoenix_singh25 I've had two places where the landlord just casually left out that the building had a bat problem in the summer. Like, thanks for that heads up AFTER I signed the lease. And the agent just smiles and says "oh it's not that bad." Yeah right. You basically have to play detective before you sign anything now. Every time I move I feel like something wild gets hidden until it's too late.

I read this article a while back about a study that found churches are way less likely to get audited than other nonprofits, even though they handle billions of dollars every year. It stuck with me because it makes you wonder how much stuff like what you saw at that church is actually going on. Having a treasurer and doing monthly reports for a $20 dog food bag sounds like basic accountability, but so many religious places just skip that completely. I get that people trust their local pastor way more than some random charity, but that trust seems to get taken advantage of way too often. Have you ever heard of anyone actually reporting that kind of thing to the IRS or whoever?

And you're saying that's the whole story, but then you gotta wonder if someone didn't just reset the thing mid-flight without logging it, because that would totally throw off any drift pattern you thought you were tracking. I've seen that happen where a crew swaps out a tool to keep running and nobody bothers to note the serial number change until way later, then all of a sudden you're blaming a gradual creep that was actually just a fresh unit with different baseline error. The whole "was it rotated" question cuts to the heart of whether you can trust the data at all or if you're just guessing at a pattern that doesn't exist yet. If nobody can confirm it wasn't swapped, then building a maintenance schedule off that sixty-flight stretch feels like building a house on sand.