Change to melee weapon repairs

[Deseoso]

I would like to see a mod that changes the way melee weapon repairs work. I can understand the concept of disassembling a working but poor conditioned firearm to improve the condition of another one. They are complex mechanical (or electrical in the case of energy weapons) tools. Having actually tried my hand in real life at blacksmithing, I can safely say that a machete with a cracked blade cannot be repaired simply because you have another machete with a slightly less damaged blade. Sure you can re-heat the blade, bang the metal into one lump and then re-smith it but that is the same as smithing a new blade.

 

I would like a mod that vastly decreases the rate at which melee weapons deteriorate but also makes them unrepairable. The other thing this mod would need to change is the condition of melee weapons found on killed NPCs. I would suggest that they are set by default to have a condition between 75 and 100 percent.