A clear menu is good, but isn't the real problem that the original deal wasn't specific enough?

Look, I've seen guys do it both ways for years. That star pattern is mostly to keep from warping a big, thin flange. On a Cessna gear bolt, you're pulling a thick casting down to another thick casting. A circle pattern probably gets you to the same end result, just maybe a few extra foot-pounds on the final pass. The book says star, so do star now that you know. But I doubt you hurt anything.

Right, like the stain becomes its own kind of data. You could trace the spread of the spill by which entries got blurred, so you know exactly what info was lost on that bad day. It's not just a ruined page, it's a physical record of the accident happening in real time. Someone in the future would have to piece together the event through both the words left and the coffee that wiped other words out. Kinda wild how a random mess turns into part of the story.

That "tool just disappear" feeling is everywhere, like when you lose your keys because you're rushing out the door. It's that same pressure elliotr98 mentioned, where speed wrecks the whole job. Rushing never saves time, it just makes more work.

Heard some old vises just get better with age.