You pay for the fact they have to keep thousands of parts in stock and may not sell many of them.
Don't they come in handy though.
I am regularly amazed at the the price of even simple airgun parts such as O rings. This set me wondering how much it would cost to assemble a gun entirely from spare parts if it were possible. I think it would be eye watering.
You pay for the fact they have to keep thousands of parts in stock and may not sell many of them.
Don't they come in handy though.
A car magazine priced up the parts to build a car and I'm sure it was a good deal more than buying it as a complete car.
In 1989, I priced up all the parts needed to build an MGB GT, and stopped when the total passed £25,000. You could buy a very tidy example for £8,000 at the time.
Some years before that, I priced up the components to build an HW77, and seem to remember it being about four times the price pf a new rifle.
I used to work for a lighting manufacturer. They had a spares section that was the most profitable section in the business. On average the mark up on component price was at least 300%.
My first port of call for all screws, washers, 'O' rings etc is my local friendly engineers merchants.
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