Ugh, that sounds so familiar! My buddy on a dig in Arizona told me they skipped the sifter once and ended up missing a whole shell pendant that showed up later in the back dirt pile.

Yeah I heard fiberglass is brutal in tight spots @sage_park6.

Three years back I walked into a brand-new build where every inside corner had mesh tape. The homeowner was bragging how fast the crew finished. Six months later I was cutting out half the corners because they were cracked from foundation settling. The paper tape I replaced them with is still solid today. Mesh is great for flat seams but corners need the flexibility paper gives you.

I actually had a different experience with the SIGNUM tray from IKEA, I kept a full size desktop tower and a power strip in mine for two years without issues. It did take some careful cable routing but it worked fine once I stopped trying to cram everything in there at once.

Three weeks ago I dropped my phone between the subway tracks and realized how much we all work blind every day, just feeling for stuff we can't see and hoping it works out.