CrackedDSM
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I'd guess 15-20 years ago shops were selling them for good money. Then someone copied one in China, whored it out on ebay for a year or two at prices less than raw materials could be bought for here in the US. So the shops stopped selling them as they couldn't compete, and then after time the guys on eBay hocking them probably lost interest due to margins sucking or they sold only 25 a year or they just went to a different platform or straight up went out of business or they were just too incompetent to keep them in stock. Lots of forks in that road but either way the whole thing dies. It's the same story I've seen with many many parts over the years. It's a dirty business with no f**ks given by the guys on eBay just ruining stuff the second they get a hint of something being popular. And you see it now with even big players like Summit. They have their Summit brand which are just blatant rip-offs of legit stuff. It's a dirty f**king business and the guys getting the lions share are hacks all the way up companies of that scale.
You know what this reminds me of?
DSM part out guys and Mitsubishi suddenly stopping production of new replacement parts. Sounds super duper familiar.