Huh, bet the soil microbiomes are completely different now than back then.

Wait, so you're telling me my discount dinner might come with a side of botulism? Guess I'll just stick to paying full price for my soup and living dangerously with my expired yogurt instead.

Rivera actually, that's "rough way" not "rough way to find out.

Bet that shorter timer hits elderly folks and kids the hardest though.

Did you check if the serial number fell in the recall range? Snap-On had a service bulletin on some of those split beams from late last year, but they don't exactly advertise it. I had an older 3/8 that drifted after a drop and the truck guy swapped the spring and recalibrated it for free, took like 15 minutes. Might be worth asking if they can just swap the spring assembly instead of going through a full return headache.