Things are volatile and unpredictable right now. Be prepared.
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There may be difficult times ahead, but if left to their own devices Americans would find solutions. It would take time but machine shops could step up and start making the needed parts. Even manufacturing for IC chips could be engineered. We have plenty of raw materials and steel mills in this country. Solutions are there and when motivated and at the precipice people will provide the solutions. But we know this doesn’t happen overnight, so get prepared and stock up as it’s going to be a rocky road ahead!
We have plenty of wafer fab clean facilities that were abandoned & product off shored over the past 15-20 years. We used to make millions of the IC chips right in America. I worked for one of them for 30 years. May be time to fire them back up.
That's not so easy. The equipment in those older American fabs that were closed is no where near able to do anything current for the lithography required by today's chips.
Also, if the work was offshored decades ago, likely the infrastructure of the plant was gutted and what's left is an empty shell of a building.
Now for plants that are still operational, most have some relatively recent lithography that isn't cutting edge but can create a serviceable chip design for most types of electronic semiconductor needs. It might not run as fast, it might cost more due to fewer chips per silicon wafer, and it might be barebones on some features, but should be functional and workable.
Working in the industry, we have everything we need to make it happen. We need manufacturers to want to go back to US made chips.
While I agree old businesses aren't ready to just fire back up and start cranking out 90s technology, I absolutely agree we have the engineering skill and labor talent to make our own stuff. We absolutely need to do so ASAP.
I believe in good old American ingenuity and the American fighting spirit. I will admit, that faith was dented a bit during the great toilet paper shortage debacle of 2020. Who woulda thunk a country like ours would have had such a shortage for so long? I was telling everyone, don't sweat it. These companies will put on a 2nd and 3rd shift to fill the need. This will be over in no time. Meanwhile ... 3 months later ...
The toilet paper shortage was more about shipping space as anything. Once people bought up a stores stock it was tough to replenish because toilet paper takes up so much space on the trucks.
Plus, stores only keep what they think they will sell until the next shipment. If their "just in time shipping" models get thrown out of whack then there are empty shelves because they don't have enough trucks booked to handle things that quickly. They don't have months worth of stockpile sitting around ready to handle any major call. (afaik)
Did Americans ever really need all that toilet paper?
We are quite full of shit on occasion.
2020, the year that started with a run on TP and ended up in the crapper-and now that crapper needs rotorooting... 🤔
I have quite the stockpile now.
Like those people who say when food shortage occurs they plan on growing a garden. One could starve to death a bunch of time between planting, and harvest, and it is not easy if you don't have some experience with what grows in area, when to plant including what to start inside early, how to prepare soil, how to choose the best spot to plan to avoid flooding, how to control insects etc.
And the amount, to figure it out this year, we created a couple planter boxes, we planted some peas and carrots, months later we had enough for a couple of meals.
That's how it works in Mexico. My dad said every town had a fab shop that made those parts because they couldn't afford to import everything or the time to wait for them. Kinda funny this came up while he was bitching he had to buy an entire kit to replace a spring he lost while working on the work truck.
You are so rich in mexico to not check some "junk" yard ? We in Poland do this only if somebody have good earnings,live in bigger city or have no basic knowledge about repairing the cars and nobody in our family having such knowledge...
But about buying entire kit - no tools or no parts affordable - no fun. Original new parts cost.
Yeah they also use junkyards for used parts. It was just a common thing for them to use a fab shop to create parts because they don't have access to all of the same things we do in America. It was just another option that was way more common.
With President Trump and his admin this will be possible.