I understand the sentiment. The thing is, with the cost of parts and labor now days, it's often cheaper to change a whole assembly, like a carb, rather than to rebuild the old one.
Since I work for myself I will almost always rebuild rather than replace on something that is mine. If it's a customers, I will weight the cost difference, as well as the difference in quality of the rebuilt part -vs- the new part, and do whatever works best in that situation.
As a simple example, I've got a customer with a chipper. He was paying nearly $50, plus two trips to the saw shop, to get his knives sharpened. Doing things that way, the shear bar had to be adjusted ever couple of grinds to insure a proper clearance. Too, the knives all had to be installed the right way to insure the sides that were ground together (and were the same length) stayed together, again to maintain adjustment. I finally convinced him that a new set of knives was less than $100 more than having a set reground. By the time you took into account time and gas for two trips to the sharpening shop, the extra time to insure the knives were all on right, and the clearances were right with each blade change, etc, etc, having them sharpened didn't make sense. Now he simply buys a set, flips them when dull, and gets another new set.
It seems like a waste to throw away blades that can be sharpened, but ultimately it costs more to sharpen them than to get new ones each time.
In the end, things just aren't like they used to be in any way, shape, or form....and it takes a lot of getting used to for those of us that still see the waste (like with the blades), when it's the waste that's making money.
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