It wouldn't be feasible to try to produce just a handful of uncommon parts. I am a machinist, and my machine will bring $100+/ hour, probably closer to 200 with the size of it. You can't just save all the old tooling for every part around for ever. Fixtures take up room, and room is money. Not to mention the tools used to make that part even 10 years ago won't be the same ones I would use today to make the same part. If someone needed 5 parts made that used to be made 1000's at a time, and they originally were made in 10 minutes a piece, it's probably going to take atleast an hour a piece to make them, from setup to tear down. So now a part that once only cost $30 will now cost $300 simply because of the lower order size.
I've made parts barely bigger than a quarter that had several hours in each piece. Size doesn't always determine price. Those parts had to cost atleast $500/each to bring in a profit for my employer. You think some of these prices are high, just see what they would cost if they had to make just a handful because "some day, someone might need one of these"
If the parts ain't moving, the parent company isn't going to shell out the money to make slow moving parts for an old and not usually used to make a profit tractor a 50 year old manure spreader or hay rake.
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