"Happy"

"So if it is not part availability and not the turbines, ( being that they are all based on one design anyway ), what does that leave as the weak link in RAM's armour "

How about the great American Dollar, or lack of them.

If you are in business, then you'll know the importance of cash flow, and money in general.

From what I know, and it's a lot more than you give me credit for, by the time they had streamlined the production side of things, the debts had probably exceeded likely income. Unable to recoup the previous losses without being able to increase the price due to competition, they had to struggle along and hope that everybody else might fall by the wayside trying to compete with "the better product"

We know the result.

But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and that and an understanding of what was going on at RAM and being in business myself, I'm sure that we have not heard the end of the story.

And the handle is jockjets, or if you like, Ian