My grandpa had this old cast iron that he swore by and I always thought it was just some old guy thing until I tried it myself. He used to say a good pan gets better with age and I laughed at him back then. Last year I finally dug his skillet out of my mom's garage and spent a whole weekend scrubbing rust off it. Now it cooks eggs better than anything I ever bought new. The flaking thing on nonstick drove me nuts too, you're eating little bits of coating without even knowing it. Still keep one cheap nonstick for fish though because I suck at not tearing the fillet apart.

Man, algae sludge in the tank of a 7-year-old rig? That black gunk is no joke, it'll plug everything downstream once it breaks loose. I get why you pulled the screen to get him rolling, but that stuff is still floating around in there and your filters are gonna be eating it now. Four hours gone and no screen on the truck, that's just brutal luck. Me, I'd probably have done the same thing to keep the customer happy and told him to bring it in soon for a tank drop.