Accessory Section 8 wrote:

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.

The US ppl want to watch out that their govt does not sell everything off to
private
enterprise.
I saw a film recently called 'The Take' about the factory workers in
Argentina
who recently have ex-appropriated many factories after the ruination caused
by
Menen when he was in charge.

Its a different situation to the US, but there is ovewhelming global
pressure
for all businesses which make anything for anyone to just give up and leave
it to the chinese.

Anyway in Argentina the workers stole the closed down factories ( to keep
making the same good old tractors,
clothing, and ceramic tiles et all. )

Its amazing how productivity and profitability rises once you sack the
fukkin bosses
and the middle men and stop paying shareholders, none of whom know what a
day's real work is.
One reason private enterprize goes phut is the crippling
payments to the bosses for their BMW and their big lifestyles.

I don't know of any transformer winders in Argentina though....

Patrick Turner.