I have excellent relations with my contract mfg's in
Hong Kong. I still get kicker checks in the mail when one of the larger
customers dose a reorder.

That sounds like a pretty cool contractor agreement! I've never heard of
that.

That side of the industry is going away to
overseas company's. Korea is taking a lot of it away from the US market.

Too bad. That sounds interesting...

I was almost thinking of contracting out to aviation radio shops to fix
things they are not equipped to do like their SMT work "narco, gps, ect"
but
not sure of the legal requirements would be if any to replace a part in
aircraft electronics then have the radio shop do all the final testing
certifying.


I often wonder that, too. In fact, I was think more of designing avionics
(nav, com, transponder, gps, etc).
I wonder what kind of insurance you need...

Adam