Want to see my "Been There - Done That" T-shirt? (I didn't buy the picture.)
What has often happened in recent years is interesting....
Company T sets up an order for an instrument of their design and buys the tooling to produce same. The production runs for a few years and when sales start to falter, they stop ordering and may release to tools. (Many companies charge the client for storage of unused tools. So someone at company T says to scrape the tools. So, the "scape tools" get sold to right where they are.
Now Company E has everything it needs to produce the part with no tooling investment. This happens all the time in the manufacturing sectors.
It may be the same as the Triplett, but it also might not and you will probably not get the support that you could get from Triplett - if it is needed.
Matt
