As usual I'm contemplating a couple of future projects I eventually want to get to. I’ve been doing the typical stuff, looking around for part suppliers, checking prices etc.

A lot of the companies that I tend to look at are smaller one or two man operations that are doing specialty parts and services. With the current economy I really wonder how many will still be around when I comes time for me actually start picking up the bits and pieces. I’m starting to see the crunch locally with a few (at this time) of the smaller operations starting to fold and read on the net of a few more doing the same thing.

On the one hand I’m tempted to go ahead and pick up a few thing now or in the near future, but on the other I really not sure I want the parts just sitting around for a few years.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?