Larry wrote:

Howard wrote in news:7fedc$44fe1ad9$43663f75$8412
@msgid.meganewsservers.com:


Ronstan Series 32 I beam track is close but a little too large.



"They" haven't made your track in 12 years and have no parts to fix it.....

Every 4 years we have to completely re-design perfectly good working parts
into parts that fail more often to keep the company in business and force
everyone to buy the "whole new thing", not some obscure part like a pin
with a spring. To make sure it won't fit, we'll switch back and forth from
English to Metric every 4 years.

I believe the correct socialogical term is "Planned Obsolescense". (Did I
spell that right??...(c

Nope; it's "obsolescence".

DT
(It's also "sociological". But I agree with your main point. ;-))