What's the best way to find a cheap food-grade barrel locally?

Yeah, that exact thing happened to me last month. A totally dead board, no signs of life at all. I was ready to call it a lost cause. Popped the battery out for a full minute, put it back in, and it fired right up like nothing was wrong. It's crazy how a corrupted BIOS can mimic a complete hardware failure. Saves you from ordering a whole new motherboard, at least.

Bring the family every single time. Your dad gets it way more than you do. Watching real work happen beats any classroom lesson for sparking genuine interest. That bonding moment is worth way more than worrying about a minor distraction. You might be focusing on the wrong thing entirely.

I mean, covering it up just kicks the can down the road, you know? Even though @the_sandra is right about costs, that's a health risk you can't really ignore.

Works fine without them sometimes.