Pelican 1510 Waterproof Carry Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to another unboxing I personally am of the philosophy that expensive
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products should come with expensive accessories already but it almost seems
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like it works the opposite way doesn't it folks where the more expensive a
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product is the more the manufacturer kind of goes ah it's okay they can
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afford it don't worry about it so this guy right here this is my NX whatever
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the heck it's called fs700 camera it's like 8,500 bucks with the lens kit
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didn't come with a carrying case no I have to spend another hundred bucks or
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$200 or whatever this thing ended up costing me on a carrying case because I
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have to take that camera with me to CES
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which I am of course super super excited
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about so let's have a look at what Pelican has to say for themselves as if
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no one's ever heard of a Pelican case anyway all right pelican cases what are
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they good for h a lot of
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stuff okay automatic pressure purge valve oneway membrane that releases air
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pressure but keeps moisture out so yeah they're waterproof easy open double
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throw latches secondary movement works like a pry bar to open with a light pull
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you know it's a genuine pelicin Case by that unique dualband design metal
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reinforced padlock protectors for added strength and extra security po polymer
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O-rings provide a watertight seal for ultimate protection so basically these
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are the way to transport super expensive
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sensitive fragile equipment long
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distances in rough conditions with no
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risk to them now you know it's funny cuz I harp on packing
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materials you know I always say it's going to have a soft foam
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and for something like this I'd actually be disappointed if it did have any
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packing materials inside the case because that to me would be an
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indication that the manufacturer doesn't think it's suitable as a shipping
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container so you'll be pleased to see there are absolutely
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no packing materials whatsoever in the
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box for my Pelican 1510 case what else
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they say guarantees its products for a lifetime against breakage or defects in
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workmanship they're guaranteed to be water typed to a depth of 3.3 ft for 30
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minutes unless otherwise stated does not cover lamps or batteries etc etc etc no
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abuse clean and inspect the O-ring regularly what else we got to say for
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ourselves here metal reinforced pad loock protector 17-inch locking
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retractable extension handle non-slip rubberized handles and automatic pressure Purge Val heavy duty urethane
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wheels so here it is all right so what
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do we got here there's our there's our heavy duty handle which has a rubberized
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bottom for more Comfort when you're carrying it so it's got a little bit of softness to it but not much you can see
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there's thick thick metal bolts through
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not one but I mean even if one of these breaks off it's not going anywhere so
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I'd expect to be able to basically swing this thing around by its handle without
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any diff well it's heavy but you know other than that without any difficulty
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here's our extending carrying handle which again is using an incredibly
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rugged sort of construction there's no like telescoping metal sliders this is
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just like a spring a spring-loaded thing here that fits into a notch at the
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bottom and it's not going anywhere like I can put all my weight on this and it's
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not going anywhere just like that all right so you can lock that into place
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you can carry it by that if you want on the side you've got phenomenally rugged
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looking hinges I'm actually feeling pretty good about this purchase even
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though it's basically a you know I think I saw the invoice for it when I was
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unboxing it it's like you know a couple hundred hunk of plastic essentially how
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much was it pear Stone pear
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Stone Pelican case yeah 140 bucks $140
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piece of plastic but I'm feeling pretty good I mean looking at stuff like this
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and how it's got nice long metal rods that go through you know one two three
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like a triple hinge sort of design here
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okay the Wheels look like wheels so nothing out of the ordinary there and
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here we go here's the main carrying handle so this guy is again our rubber
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bottomed and then again it's got sort of two pieces of metal or two pieces of
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plastic interlocked with three on either side there's those metal reinforced
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padlock spots not one but two of them so in theory if you were going to use this
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as like if you were going to um check it at the airport or whatever else it
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should be harder to cut your padlocks off and uh let's go ahead and see there's
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the front so there's some chicken a wet suit over 40 sizes automatic pressure
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where did where did that pressure valve go where is that here's the bottom looks
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like it could take some sliding without any difficulty I didn't see the pressure
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valve oh yeah there it is hiding right under my hand genuine Pelican case all
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right let's open this baby up and see what we got okay so okay ah there we go
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so it latches is kind of twice okay so
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it goes down once but then comes up
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twice okay neat and it comes with super thick foam
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inside which you can actually totally customize okay so thank you for your
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purchase warranty card or something like that special instructions humidity
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o-ring cleaning instructions solid foam comes with a solid foam follow these
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steps to customize your layout layout all the items on top of the foam so I
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for example would take something like my camera and I'd put it here uh it's
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obvious I'm not going to get my shotgun mic in there at the same time using
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chalk Trace around the items to create an outline leave at least one inch of
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foam between the items and the walls of the case so you can't go too close to
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the walls they don't want you to just you know eat it all up here so remove
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components from the foam with the foam protruding blah blah blah use an 8 in
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electric knife or very sharp blade and begin cutting when you simp enough mistake is made use a rubber cement or
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spray adhesive to repair the foam remove Chalk Outline with the damp clah blah
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blah blah we recommend gluing the cut section so basically uh this one seems
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to come with little squares so you could just pull out the squares although some
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of them have solid foam so you would have to cut that you can see you can
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remove however many squares you want to make your equipment fit and it goes all
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the way down the entire depth of the case so you can see these are cut all
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the way through or perforated all the way through so you can do whatever you
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need to do to get whatever gear you want packed into here and then there's one
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more layer of foam at the bottom for the ultimate and protection so I have heard
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that this Pelican case is a good fit for this particular camera so we'll have to
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figure out how exactly it goes in there this piece comes off it's just a matter
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of going like this and removing it and then this piece comes off so it looks
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like it's going to fit in there just fine kind of right there and then some
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accessories can go around it and we should be good to go for our trip to CES
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