afleetcommand
Pinnacle OPE Member
In other motorsports worlds it isn't unusual for a company to hire a manufacturing outfit to build"custom" parts. Dominant Pistons? Are they Wiseco? Companies like Wiseco have done that type of thing for decades. Vertex , any one hear of that piston manufacturer? Who build the pistons for Pro Circuit? DO they or is that contracted out? And does it really matter. Husqvarna used an "Italian" source and Mahle for their OEM branded pistons. Stihl did as well and looks like they brought some of that in house. Actually quite a few out there who can both forge & machine or cast & machine those rather simple shapes. No idea where LRB get their stuff. Also don't know if they "contracted" with a foreign company such as VEC or Highway to build pistons unique to LRB to stuff in those genuine little red boxes. But its possible. So lets say something like that happen, just for argument. A problem with that modus opporendi is those companies operate at their discretion and there really is little or no recourse should the manufacturing source decide to find additional channels for their widget even if it was originally speced and requested by the "first" re-seller. Have some real fumy stories from another life and time with that and interesting enough with an software developer from India...SO If I am some small company trying to accelerate a product concept, and work with a company who manufactures and sells to EVERY one ...I might be a little tight on information until I get my business model humming. Just saying.
Of course to me with Husqvarna pricing...why do anything else when reliability is the goal? Makes this kind of an academic discussion... ( any one know what that means? )
( But if a company misleads about material/manufacturing and builds chit...fair game right? Right now LRB is a "question mark" with an interesting product. WHEN folks build with them and we get feed back, guess we will know if they are worth a chit. Cool concept though )
Of course to me with Husqvarna pricing...why do anything else when reliability is the goal? Makes this kind of an academic discussion... ( any one know what that means? )
( But if a company misleads about material/manufacturing and builds chit...fair game right? Right now LRB is a "question mark" with an interesting product. WHEN folks build with them and we get feed back, guess we will know if they are worth a chit. Cool concept though )
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