Ben Wainscott wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:46 am[...] My opinion is there would be significant interest in folks who drive their cars outside their local ares to carry a spare, and if the price was reasonable, I might even replace both of my floats with new.
I can only speak for Pre Mat, but good replacements are not likely to be priced 'reasonably'.
The part(s) require two individual parts, thereafter bonded together, with VERY good QC to prevent a recurrence of the current problem. The start-up costs alone price most all of the vendors out of the market, not to mention the marketing costs to differentiate the new ones from the old. And as we see here, when the problem gets difficult, people dig under the bench and find the rat-holed parts they stuck there years ago, leaving the vendor now holding an expensive inventory with no return.
Hope this is not misunderstood; most all of us providing parts are not deaf to the demand for this or that part. Every one of the guys developing parts loves to be the one who figures out how to get that part out the door sooner and at a lower price than the others.
But carb parts in particular are tough. Originally, there were millions made which meant the tooling costs were irrelevant. Now, anyone trying to make them is selling tens. 9 zeros compared to one; there's the reason rebop carb parts are not, and will not be 'reasonably' priced.
. A big thanks to Geoff who may have a couple of spares to get me going again! 
