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Ralph Mowery

In article ,
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In article ,
Cursitor Doom wrote:

Questions: what makes this thing so special as to cost so much?

At a guess - exact replacement parts might no longer being made,
the equipment manufacturer has a small remaining stock, there
may be no other source. Some owners of the equipment (e.g. military
and some businesses) may have an "exact replacement only" policy
for spare parts, to avoid the need to send equipment through a
formal requalification process.

So, Marconi can charge that much for a cap, because there are people
willing to pay it (rather than scrap the whole piece of equipment).

Sounds like the $ 100,000 diode for the military that could have been
replaced by a diode that cost less than one dollar except for the
military spec. Seems the military supply depot did not have any. The
company that made them did not have any,so they had to make one. Could
not make just one, had to do it in a large batch. Probably made 10 to
20 thousand of them.