Oh gosh, that eye tracking thing sounds awful. I'll stick to shorter shows from now on.

Oh man, yeah, the UV thing is absolutely real. I switched to brass fittings after my second blowout last summer and haven't had a single issue since. That little bit extra upfront saves you from a whole weekend of digging and cussing.

Watched that demo space on a visit a couple years ago too and honestly @alicer53 I gotta push back a little. Most libraries absolutely do not have a working leather paring machine from the 1800s or a dedicated bindery room full of vintage equipment that's still used daily for actual repairs. The one I went to just had a standard repair corner with some basic tools. What gets me is they were using reversable wheat paste instead of modern glue which is smarter than a lot of places that just slap on cheap tape or rubber cement for quick fixes. That attention to old school techniques is pretty rare these days.

So far everyone's focused on the noise, but nobody mentioned the smell. If that cat had been in there long enough it would have been a whole different kind of service call.

You ever have one of those moments where you just know something bad is about to happen? My buddy was working a site in Seattle and a guy set up his matting right near a slope, the crane went to swing a load and the whole counterweight side just sank into the mud. Luckily nobody got hurt but the crane tipped hard enough to snap a few hydraulic lines and cost them a whole day to get a bigger crane out to reset it.