I found out years ago that a rigged up fix will get blamed on YOU when you do one. Had a Great Uncle that was a tight wad that had zero common sense on what the true cost of things was. HE just always shopped for the "Cheapest" fix. He junked more starters, generators and alternators with junk batteries than anyone around.
When I was just out of the service he had his Ferguson 30 tractor starter go bad. He brought it to me. He had burnt the brushes up in it. I turned the armature and put new brushes in it. I told him to buy a new battery for it. HE was using an old small 6 Volt car battery he would have to jump start it every time it was cold at all. Well he did not get a new battery an burnt the new brushes up in less than a month.
He told every one that I could not fix things very well as it has only lasted a month. I refused to ever work on any of his stuff again. He was PO about that.
Maybe I should have thanked him for "educating" me. After that I NEVER would do a half a$$ed repair. Either it is done right or it is not done by me. I have had complaints from guys over the years because of not cutting corners but not that my work was not quality.
I will gladly use good used parts. I have had many parts re-machined or reworked to usable condition but I am not going to glue something back together.
I have found that you can never make any profit off of the guys wanting rigged up repairs. So you lose two ways: 1) zero money 2) getting bad mouthed for shoddy repairs. So life is much better if they go elsewhere with their headaches.
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