My experience with lifetime buys was at HP/Agilent. They would only do
such a buy when the manufacturer announced a part discontinuance. You
then figure out how many parts you need for the expected product
lifetime plus spares for future repairs and buy that many to put in stores.
It's a pain in the neck because it can be expensive to store all that
unused inventory and it's hard to estimate product lifetime years in
advance. So if possible you try to find a substitute part, even if that
may involve some re-design. But sometimes a lifetime buy is the only
reasonable solution.
Alan N1AL
On 3/11/20 12:10 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
It is dependent on scale, David. The USAF flies large fleets of a
number of different A/C and has in-place materiel warehousing and
distribution facilities.
On 3/10/2020 9:49 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
That makes zero sense.
What are you going to make a "Lifetime Buy" on? A synth? A front
panel? A tuner? You might as well buy a second (or third) rig since
you don't have a clue what might fail in the future, and if you buy
all those things separately (or worse yet the individual components
that go into them) you better plan on working an extra year or so
before retiring.
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