I don't know how long accessories will be available. I had not gotten around to the sub-receiver, but I ordered one over the weekend and it came today. Glad....
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 7:06 PM hawley, charles j jr <[email protected]> wrote: > BMW Motorcycles keeps many parts for more than 50 years. I once ordered a > set of springs for a 1960 BMW and BMW parts in Germany sent one and ordered > the second one from an outside vendor...which means they had it made. > There's more value to supplying parts for obsolete products than what the > accounts see. > > Jack BMW Motorcycles > Chuck KE9UW > [email protected] > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Dec 6, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Ed explained it quite well. I would add that when a product is > discontinued usually the options, being also considered as product, will go > away as well. This does not imply that repair parts are discontinued. > It is often confusing to users when a product is not longer available that > service parts of the same items are available. Usually one has a product > model number and the other has a service part number. > > > > After a product is obsoleted, where I previously worked, we planned > service parts supports for some 7 or so years. There is no legal > requirement for a company to do this with consumer type products. Often > we missed the projection and ran out early. In some cases it was the > customers that ordered an excessive number of service parts {so they could > have spares} and this drew down the projected service parts inventory. > And then too, the accountants came around asking what is all of this on the > shelves for the last 5 years with no usage? Get rid of the inventory as > it is costing the company money. The customer looses either way. > > > > 73 > > > > Bob, K4TAX > > > > > >> On 12/6/2019 1:00 PM, Edward R Cole wrote: > >> Don explained it well; Elecraft support appears to continue for the K3, > K3S. Obtaining new options apparently has a shorter life-span. > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- 73 de Ted Edwards, W3TB and GØPWW and thinking about operating CW: "Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't." ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
