Legality of purchasing Planetary Gearboxes from alternative sources.

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

You just answered your own question - let's assume they are identical. Can you plan your requirements 25 days out during build season? No? So what you'd really like is some locally sourced components. But since they now have to stock in the hopes of you ordering they've taken on risk, couple that with costs of warehousing and shipping it to you. Really you're paying AM to stock the part for you so you can have it in your greasy hands tomorrow instead of next month.

Before you start assuming that I hold something against AM for their business practices, slow down and think a bit. All I did was raise a question. If it is the same, and like the OP I can plan ahead, I would be willing to check these out. I'm rarely willing to pay someone double the cost on an item just for convenience, and would rather find a solution that uses a different product.
However, we like the PG series. Amd might be willing to test the's out to see how they function as it offers a considerable savings when you use 2-3 of these a year on each robot plus spares...