[marcus]

I think that you also have to consider is this: Reverse engineering still costs money and time, and you have to commit a CNC machine to an amount of that time as well. You'll get wastage and allsorts of setbacks.
Now, to us die-hard enthusiasts that doen't seem like an obstacle because "If you make them we will buy", but we are just a few guys. To recover costs and to make this stuff actually pay, UE, RCM, whomever, have to sell A LOT.
This is why Robin got into trouble and said it wasn't paying. His gear is/was so high quality and used the best materials that his prices were understandably high and therefore an easy target to be ousted by cheapo outfits like GPM etc. Now of course you have a whole raft of companies selling MAxx stuff so now the average man/boy on the street who wants alloy for his Maxx Wouldn't buy UE if it was in stock. Why would he ? Even if he knows the stuff is the best, the price was just toooo much for him to justify it.

I know UE is the best, what I'm saying is that it's not as easy to make this stuff sell as you would think. If we RCM Maxx owners all committed to buying a full set of setback suspension from Mike if he made them, he'd still lose out. It's mainstream sales that's needed... The market isn't there.

The SAME THING happened with the EK4 and MSJ. MSJ made superb stuff for the EK4 which was inherently weak (as weak as the T/E-maxx) but despite their stuff regenarating the EK4 community, the mainstream market thinned out and the modellers wouldn't pay the price. Somebody bought the CAD files for the parts and tried to restart production but closed their doors within months. Now I know that there are CAD files bouncing around for sale but nobody wants them.