Monday 1/24/11
Bad news guys, I spoke again with the OEM supplier last week who built our shift knobs with the porcelin emblem on top. The family owned business after reorganizing after the founding father died last year has decided to discontinue producing the knobs with emblems. They notified me and thier european OEM customers of this decision. It is a business decision based on being able to create profits from the enveavor, they expressed to me that because of the high rejection rate it is too hard to project pricing/profits. I inquired about buying their tooling for the process & that went nowhere. I will keep my eyes & ears open to alternative methods/options...RonT