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Originally Posted by squirrel
Philosophically speaking....
It's good to have a lack of spares for some items, because you are forced to make a decision about the wisdom of using that part in your design. You can decide to accept the risk of not being able to replace it at a critical time, or you can decide to keep working on your design until it contains few or no parts for which you cannot obtain spares.
It is bad to have a lack of spares because the above lesson is a tough one to learn by experience!
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I agree wholeheartedly with this - the lack of availability of some items is a design constraint that makes developing a suitable engineering solution difficult! In professional life, you come across these types of decisions all the time - do you do the "safe" thing that might not be as good, or do you accept the additional risk of trying to do the best performing design? There's always a trade off between risk and performance on practically every project you'll work on after school - it's good to start understanding how that trade off can affect your success.
That being said, i'm sure every team would really like some spares
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