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From: n295vv

For a good explanation of Occam's Razor, see:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeMML/Notes/Ockham.html

My Daddy had his own Razor:  "Those chickens are going to come home to 
roost!" .   I was reminded of that this morning when I heard of the 320 
builder who couldn't buy wings....I can just imagine the comments flying 
around on the other builder websites about this one.

Hey, why don't you offer to buy the plug mold and refurbish it?

David Jones


[David, in fairness to the factory your comment above isn't quite 100%... 
Bryan's post stated that he was advised that the factory had stopped making
L235 wings long ago.  L320 wings are still available to him, he's just less
than enthusiastic about the price.  As for their decision to stop making
the 235 wings due to the molds being unservicable, well, that's manufacturing
for you.  I deal with this kind of thing routinely with some of the glass 
equipment I support... customers with 15-year-old machines get
disgruntled when we tell them that some of the original components are
no longer available.  It's about the same as trying to buy a new 
motherboard for an 8088-processor based PC... no one's making them 
anymore and what's the point when you can get very recent technology for 
a song.  Factories can't continue to manufacture items that are obsolete
and for which there simply isn't a reasonably sized marketplace.  
Just economics.  My 2c.

  <Marv>    ]

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