the barrel is fine, who ever cut the opening on top for the rain water and installed the black screen must have had a bad day, the little baggie that was attached to the underside of the black screen was split open and the spigot and the unrolled Polytetrafluoroethylene tape was laying in the bottom with all the waste for the hole the was drilled out ....I was thinking the opening on top was as big as the screen that was covering it, not on my barrel