RE: Scale olde non-lead sled
You got me all wrong about garage Mfg.s, I wasn't implying anything bad about them, you know as well as I here in So. CA. it's just about every guy's dream to have such a business . . . even one that just makes only a little bit more dough then we spend on our hobbies and maybe even enough help supplement our cost of living bills. Be it fooling around with collector cars, model planes or fishing equip. Producing limited run/demand products, stuff the big guys don't bother with or have the forsight to see. As in Apple computer's start up for example. . . in a garage.
If one is looking for something 'esoteric' that is to say out of the main stream these are the people you need to find. The guys who are doing those things out of their garage or one of the little 500-1K Sq. Ft. shops that are so common around here and elsewhere I'd guess, that kind of Op. I was hoping to find . . . and from Martin's reply I think I may have found such a place.
Rick K