Depends. I posted earlier about orders being held up because parts were unavailable. If you have a customer for your $700,000 machine that can't be shipped bec

Depends. I posted earlier about orders being held up because parts were unavailable. If you have a customer for your $700,000 machine that can't be shipped because a $50 module is off the market, then you bet it makes sense to buy a washing machine to extract that part. The only other alternative is to hope that there's enough margin to redesign around another, available part. We had a client pre-COVID that found themselves in exactly this predicament. If we could have found the part they needed embedded in another machine, that's exactly the recommendation we'd have made. [edited]