SMS wrote:

Figuring I could just buy one of these the next day, as I even had the
part number, but the part wasn't sold separately. I called the part
manufacturer, found they had sold the division to another company, called
them, and gave a good story. They fabricated five of them and sent them to
me free. It took three weeks for them to make the samples, but this is in
California, and I wasn't freezing.

Samples? What did you do, tell them you were thinking of ordering a
jillion of them?

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Tony Sivori