Nigel,
My dislike-hatred if you like? of BP is purely through the fact I can't stand people being ripped off with the purchase of inferior goods-and 90% of the comments made on here-and elsewhere plainly are of the Inferior quality of BP, OK yes all of us at some point is guilty of buying Inferior goods but we soon learn lessons from It-hopefully anyway,I also have to agree with you that some of us are indeed in a position of being able to have what we want already but It's not always been the case with me-If I didn't have the job and skills that I possess then I would be doing a normal job back here in the UK as It goes i do have the pre-requisite to d the job I do now and will carry on working the way I'm doing,
We all buy projects in some way shape or form to get up to a decent standard, The problem for me personally is that buying/winning someone else's project conjures up all sorts of possible problems that the previous owner has either bodged or hasn't done up to a good standard as I would hope to do myself-We've all seen it on here OP's attempts at wiring etc. and even some bizarre mechanical work too, OK not all of us are to the standard of the likes of DD-Dan but a lot of us are very capable of turning out some fantastic vehicles that are very capable and for not much money either
John