Native Flora of the Valley" sounds like a total lucky find.

Lol reminds me of the time I spent three hours trying to fix a free bookshelf.

That two hour diagnosis is the real job, the part swap is just the last step. People never see the work that goes into knowing which $85 part to order in the first place.

Yeah, and it's not just builders. The low bidder on the install job is always trying to save a few bucks on materials. They run the bare minimum to pass inspection, then you're stuck trying to fish a new line through a packed tube five years later. It's a shortsighted way to build anything.

Just read an article about how those old direct-drive motors had maybe three moving parts total, makes the coupler job seem almost relaxing compared to now. @morgan_ward61, the weirdest thing I ever heard about was a guy finding a full set of plastic army men melted to the tub, must have been in a kid's pocket for months. Carrying that many spare parts really shows how they built stuff to be fixed back then, even if it was the same fix over and over.