Quote Originally Posted by dr. d View Post
i don't know...
certainly, we aren't the only country in the world to operate a light railway transit...
even if parts are made-to-order...
Yup, I do agree with you there.

But like in a project I worked on before, the client wanted to buy his own transformer. He found out the price, was fine with it. But even if he paid the asking price, he would still need to wait for the factory to complete fabrication for 2 months, then shipping, customs clearing. The timetable we got then (this was around 2010) was four to six months to have it on site.

No idea specifically about rectifiers but I would assume we are looking at similar scenarios because I doubt it is just parts of the whole that need to be replaced, but it needs the whole thing to be replaced because of fire then water damage.