Good point, but maybe the real luck was that deer stand thirty feet up wasn't occupied.

My friend Dave tried for three straight years. He watched that same 2014 video like a hundred times. One night after a few beers he just grabbed the sheet and started wadding it up, calling it a "modern art sculpture" and threw it in the closet. To this day he just shoves them in a drawer and calls it good. I think the real secret is nobody actually folds them right, they just pretend they do.

Oh man, same here. Dented a medieval bowl with a metal scraper once.

Last spring I had a downspout that was disconnected from the underground drain. Every rainstorm would dump water right next to my foundation. I kept telling myself I needed a plumber or some fancy extension thing. It sat like that for probably 8 months while I just let puddles form every time it rained. Turned out all I needed was a $3 coupling from the hardware store and about ten minutes of pushing it back into place. I felt pretty dumb standing there holding the thing in my hand wondering what I was even waiting for. Its amazing how a tiny fix can make you feel like you actually have your life together for once.

Honestly, I think that's the real risk here, not some one-time thermal shock event. But is it actually the solder cracking from expansion, or is it more about the lead-free stuff getting brittle after enough cycles? Has anyone actually run a test with a thermal camera to see how hot those connection points really get under load?