Thanks for everyone who helped me with sources, and for the list
bandwidth.

"Mario I. Arguello" wrote:
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> I cannot justify paying $3 for a single nylon 100T 64 Pitch gear...

Hey Mario, what about $19 for a single PMI worm (to a worm gear)?

It is not funny, this material is to be used in a machine to be
produced, but it is not in thousands, perhaps from 200 to 300 / year,
anyway, still very low quantity for those companies.  The problem is
that factories don't deal with low quantities, and they relay to
distributors for low quantity sales, but those also want to deal with
high quantities, so I don't understand what is the real function of a
local distr if I can buy high quantities directly from the factory!!!
Always I find the local distr *after* call the factory, so... what are
they?, just another middle man to increase the prices?  Isn't nice to be
seat after a table waiting customers calls after they call the factory?

I would dare to say that everybody wants to make all the day's profit in
a single sale...   When I was a little boy my family had a small
grocery/bar in a small city, we made 2 cents of profit per bread sold, 5
cents per kg of sugar, and it paid our school, food on table, clothes
and so on.  For sure the store had customers all day long (from 6am to
8pm), but just because it had a little of almost everything to sell.
Some today's distributors receive only 2 or 3 phone calls a day (when it
happens), and they want to make all the money from it... and buy a new
BMW... perhaps they need to diversify, start to sell bread too... :)

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