Honestly I get the appeal of a cleanup like that, but I see these jobs a bit differently. Finding hidden dead gear usually means someone before you skipped the boring part of documenting things, and now you're stuck paying for their shortcuts. We did a site last month where the "surprise" find was a whole rack of old switches that should've been decommissioned years ago. Customer was thrilled until they saw the labor hours on the invoice for untangling that mess. Sometimes a routine swap stays routine for a reason, and that's not a bad thing.

Ran a 316 job with mist for three years. Switched to flood last month and cut cycle time by 12%. Chip welding went from every few parts to zero. Cleanup sucks but I'm not going back.

Ha, that's wild timing. I literally just watched a YouTube video where a flooring guy was saying the same thing, how he used to trust his eye and a chalk line for years until a laser showed him how crooked his "straight" lines actually were. It's funny how you can get so stuck in your old way of doing things, you know? I bet once you go laser, going back to the chalk line feels like working blind.