We had a guy pull the same thing with brake cleaner on aluminum. Said the taps were just cheap and the fluid was a waste. He galled a 1/2-13 hole so bad we had to drill it out and go bigger. What finally got through to him was when the old timer handed him a can of the cheap stuff and made him tap the next six holes side by side with his way. Told him to feel the difference in the wrench himself instead of just arguing about it.

Takes the thinking out of it, and that's the creepy part.

Oh man, your uncle Pete sounds like he'd get along great with my cousin who swears the pyramids were batteries. But here's the thing, the library didn't go up in one big fire, it fell apart over like 300 years of budget cuts and wars. And who's to say we'd all be Greek? Rome still would've done its thing. Still, losing all those scrolls hurts to even think about.