The new realaity is lean manufacturing where parts are made to order in a time frame that meets the customer needs. It has been going on at least the last 15 years in ths country.
Also the part of creating a reality I mentioned in an earlier post is interpreting the words in an email ...
I was told by ShopSmith that their source of some parts is to wait till a shopsmith Mark V is returned by a customer and then they strip it /canabolize it for the parts to send to customers for back order items.
This is what should upset people not the clowning around they did yeasterday. Further generations will think it's a myth that skilled people actually built things in this country.