mosseater wrote:
OP, as long as you are realistic and resolved to the idea that YOU will be working on it at some point, pick the one that suits you and move forward, secure in the knowledge that they all are varying degrees of junk, you'll be fine. We are all in the same boat.
I had to laugh at this post because I AM resolved that anything we buy will be a project before we ever use it. :-) We joked that the first thing we're going to do is crawl all over it with tubes of silicone, especially if we buy one at auction.
I've read bad reviews for every manufacturer, even the supposed 'top 10.' So, as you said, they're all junk to some degree so just keep the tools and fuses handy.
