Sounds like you sealed the crack a little brother, told mom you cleaned the room, then found the mess under the bed. Galvanized loves hiding stuff like that, so a wire wheel and dye pen before you even strike an arc saves the headache. Burn it out like your lead said, chasing 14 inches of surprise is cheaper than doing the whole patch twice.

The 20 dollar yard sale find beating the 150 dollar one is so real, my mom's old no name basket does wings better than my fancy one with the window too. All those preset buttons are just noise, half the time I still have to shake stuff anyway.

Ah yes, the good old days when you could fix a car with a screwdriver and half a brain instead of a thousand dollar scanner that just tells you "misfire on cylinder 3" like that's somehow news. Now we all stand around staring at live data like it's gonna confess to us, when half the time a squirt of carb cleaner would've found the leak in five seconds. So yeah, OBD2 made us quicker but it definitely traded away some of the old school know-how.