Why so often is there poorly done old repair jobs?

[Chad Hauris]

On many of the things I have worked on that have had prior repairs I have noticed pretty sloppy repair jobs. I am now working on a 1930's Arvin radio which had capacitors replaced and the joint was made by just laying the lead on the terminal and putting a little bit of solder on it, leaving a very weak connection. On a 1971 Curtis Mathes set there was a resistor replaced and there was not even any solder on the joint. A 1950's Magnavox TV had a new yoke put on and the wires to it were just twisted to the old leads, no solder, not even black tape insulation.

I know repairmen were in a crunch for time to try and get the most sets repaired to be profitable but it doesn't take much more time in most cases to do a good job vs. a sloppy job. Have you all seen this sort of thing in your equipment?