Personally, I treat my magazines like any other machine - as parts that are going to wear out one day. I would like to tell you that I just use them and replace them when they are no longer working as desired.
In actual practice, I have a big pile of magazines (AR mostly; but a few others) that are no longer reliable that I keep around and try to fix. Left over habits from the ban era when that was a worthwhile approach. Considering what it costs to by quality components to rebuild a magazine (assuming the actual mag body isn't the problem), you are almost always better off trashing the non-working magazine and buying a quality new magazine.
Not to mention you avoid the irritation of the bad magazines working their way back into your "good" magazine pile. I swear those little bastards grow legs and sneak across the room at night.
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