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I believe Patrick once said the long waiting times was due to them doing runs of different escs on their machines- they set them up to do the MMM for example, so nothing else gets built in the mean time until they have enough MMMs done to fulfil orders from places like Traxxas and HPI (for their rtr trucks), and resellers like towerhobbies and Mike etc etc. In the mean time, stock piles of other escs will run down, then run out, so you end up with increased waiting times.

At present , BL is taking over the world, so everyone wants more of what castles got, meaning they cant keep stock piles of spares very long (sell out quickly), then you also get alot more broken escs sent in for repair due to the increase in new users and noobs trashing them, so repair lead times increase too- a double edged sword if ever there was one...