Well, there are certainly a lot of thoughts based on fantasies thrown around.
As much as I do think knowing how to repair your stuff is a good thing, its also a somewhat unrealistic thing when it comes to this. Unless of course, you have a full machine shop, or a damn good handyman shop avaialble.
Sure, have some basic, possibly high failure items (even that is kind of doubtfull, even for the junky stuff) around, that you can replace, but I seriously dont see you doing a lot of home gunsmithing should things go south.
And a lot of any possible need there can be headed off, simply by buying quality stuff, with a good history of long term use.
Buy cheap stuff at your own peril, and be prepared to pay out the ass for it, if you intend to keep buying it over and over, simply because its cheap.
The other thing, that makes more sense to me, is to have duplicates, and multiple duplicates, of anything you intend to count on. Something goes wrong, and just grab another. You can fiddle with whatever is broke, at your leisure later, assuming its nothing major. At the very least, you end up with some spare parts should you not be able to fix it.
My plan for anything going south is, Im already doing it. I plan on using everything I have around and use daily right now, and Ive got exact spares as backups, should they be needed. Thats the meat and potatoes.
Everything else is just gravy.
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