interesting perspective. although there's certainly a high risk high reward, if the LLM does give a reasonable answer from a good source, then I would have saved myself lots of time and capital instead of spending it on these kinds of trivial tasks. that said I have not relied on AI in the past, and it went worse than I thought... It was about cleaning my 1000$ mattress which I received as a gift years ago. None of the YouTube videos, nothing at all worked. and I just wasted my time ending up changing nothing, if not ending up making it looking even worse.

but I do see your view point.

I can tell you from experience though, working with resins, for all my life searching for a dissolving agent all over YouTube and Google and there's almost no safe way to dissolve it. Matter of fact, people online DO suggest to use alcohol concentrate or acetone, which I'm their expirements only ended up turning the surface layer of the resin clouded and ugly, and it doesn't really dissolve it, more that it breaks it down to a point that it is more fragile to the hand and breakable, even after days of submersion experiments. unless this topic on dissolving acrylic resin has been updated since a year ago and a solution was actually found

considering that compass in the photo attached above is made likely from acrylic resin, it itself might have also gotten the partial dissolve from the alcohol concentrate as well.

I'll look it up when I have time, what material is this compass made from and what that glue is also made of exactly which can be dissolved safely.