Bret Ludwig wrote:
Lots of winders will make whatever you want. You can spec *anything*
with some of them. Like the Rutles said: All you need is cash.



If you will buy enough of them that is somewhat true. I had one place
that does a lot of secure sonar work offer to make me some MC240
outputs-but they wanted a quantity 1000 order. I replied that I dodn't
think they had ever made 1000 of anything in the last 40 years.

Their reply? "We haven't. But you aren't going to call us up five
years from now and demand one more at a 5X rush charge, and the Navy
will. For you, it's a thousand or none".

This is called "contractor spoilage". Any small to medium business
doing enough business with Uncle Sugar gets that way, and when Uncle
cuts them off, the bloated management fires everyone and goes home
having made all the money they wanted.