I was in business for 12 years. I picked up my major customers by engineering stuff no one else would do, read make legitimate repairs on major equipment rather than complete replacements. Yup, lotsa jam sam-which-is, but we made it through.

Roger that insurance, it's expensive, never once used it, would not go without it.

On the subject of lay-offs, Sean, Christmas eve, late 70's, company came around with a pink slip (we were expecting them, but anyone with a heart woulda at least waited until New Years), as I left the building, it started snowing, they had laid off me and the guy that was riding with me at the same time. We got in my truck, as I turned it on, Merle Haggard came on the radio singing "If we make it through December". It was either laugh or cry, we chose laugh. BTW, to make this better, my wife was pregnant, and he had just had a daughter a month before. Geeeez, we coulda been a country song. [Linked Image]