I suppose whatever it takes to get the job done.
I spent a year in Thailand while in the Air Force. This was the mid-70s. Back then, gasoline cost something like 80 cents a gallon there. That was probably more than what most of them made in a day.
I saw all sorts of home made devices and work-arounds because people had no money. Buying something new was almost out of the question or even getting something fixed. The things I saw on motor vehicles would have you shaking your head. Instead of an air filter, I once saw what looked like panty hose tied to the carburetor. I don't know if he ever ran it because I would have expected it to melt. Instead of a shift lever on a motorcycle, I saw a pair of vise grips clamped to the shaft. It scared me to think what they did for a brake job yet I rode around quite a bit in the small pickups that were used as taxis.