Wait, you keep extra brine just lying around?

What kind of camera was your friend using? Solvent damage seems to hit older rubberized parts the worst. A proper fix usually means finding replacement parts from a donor body or a specialist repair shop. It's a pain, but it's the only way to make it last.

That property management company burned you pretty bad.

My buddy learned HTML on a typewriter once.

My neighbor swore his wood was ready last fall, but his chimney was smoking like a train. I brought my meter over and we checked a split from the middle of his stack, it read like 28%. He just kept saying "but it's been stacked since spring" while staring at the number. That little digital readout changed his whole tune faster than any argument I could have made. He ended up buying a cord to get by and finally let his own wood sit.