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Hey! Thanks guys! David--great tip on the sex swing hooks at Home Depot--I'll have to try those when my size-zero girlfriend gets back in town! Those hooks . . . they "spin" right? Ralph Oshiro Hey, thanks, Jim! Did you used to work at Cinema Products? I worked there for one summer in 1980 making CameraPrompters, just before I started film school. Garrett Brown came to the back to say hi once--I was in awe. I just saw Garrett at NAB2005, and he actually pretended to remember me (maybe he did 'cause I nearly dumped his Arri IIC rig at the Monterey workshop). Ralph Oshiro

Sorry, didn't know about the real name deal here. I did that exact search before I posted the above and researched the XCS electronic level unit mentioned, but I couldn't find a price for their stand-alone electronic level. I just thought someone had already researched this before and perhaps found a sub-$400 electronic level (I have no idea how much the XCS unit is), or at least an expendable supply or hardware store chain that had those old-school levels in their regular stock. Ralph Oshiro

First-time post here . . . after dumping my Cinema Products' Model II years ago, I recently purchased a Steadicam Flyer to shoot personal projects with. I used to stick those Home Depot kind of levels on the back of my camera, and also taped above the monitor on the sled to help keep my horizons in check. This is probably somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it . . . First of all, I can't seem to find those levels anymore at hardware stores (small black plastic bubble level about 3" long). Any national-chain vendor happen to have a good supply of those kinds of levels? Are there any electronic levels available under, say, a few hundred dollars that you all have found that do the trick? Thanks!