Been there with bad records. Showed up to a garage demo where the old owner labeled every breaker wrong. Total mess. First thing I do now on any job is take photos of everything before I touch a single thing. Even just phone pics on a clipboard can save your butt later. Same deal at a museum, those shelves should've been shot room by room, box by box. Twenty minutes of pics back then would've meant a hundred hours of saved work now.

A pawn shop hub lasting 8 months doesn't really prove much, it just means you got lucky with that one unit. Plenty of people buy the same cheap hub and it dies in a week, so calling it a win over brand-name stuff is a stretch.

That lavender was probably the bait... mine always draws them in too.