In retrospect I wish I hadn't taken anything apart since it turned out to be so clean inside. It being curbside I figured it had to be worthless but I'm quickly finding out ppl throw out lots of goods! I was wanting to break it just to get it down to 100 percent cast aluminum though j don't know how hard it will be. I did think breakage was as you stated though, broken aluminum casting lol that's why I have so many questions starting out that read throughs still leave me in the wrong. I have it drained as far as I can tell and it just has a thin lubricant layer on the interns.