Argo Electronics in NYC to close

Actually there is more significance than you give. The last parts houses in the Philadelphia area closed down years ago. This is part of the underlying issues that face us in the greater, real world. This is of concern for more than merely discomforted hobbyists like us. Where you have a real industrial economy that is progressing, you have lots of, shall we say, second order business that keep the main businesses going. I am doing work for a major corporation and I need a prototype. I go to a fabricator and he may need several machine shops and parts houses to build me what I want. What I need is there expediously and nobody is forced to wait for some bottleneck component to come through. My wife is frankly and simply out of business because of the demise of the rag trade in Philadelphia. She would have been a third order business. She manufactured custom pieces out of remnents. By the way, in a progressing industrial economy, you do have an active legion of talented amateurs, ie hobbiests. The lightning is getting close so I'm going to shut down now. bs On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, steve stutman wrote: