GreenPants is right!!!! What I tell my customers on good equipment like yours is at the 10 to 15 year mark when it starts getting harder and harder to get the boards you need to keep them running get your customer to buy a complete set of boards maybe two sets depends on the size of the job. Then when you have a problem the parts to fix them are already there. So down time is cut dramatically then you send the old boards out for repair and keep the cycle going. Our biggest customers do this even for new equipment just to save down time. Yes as the contractor you should replace the boards under a full maintenance contract but you cant stock every board for every job. And they only buy them once then you cover the cost of replacement. We keep a lot of good obsolete jobs running like this and of course stock up on any boards you can beg, borrow or steal from the mods in town from people who wouldn't listen or cant figure it out themselves.
