[Vermont Lt]

I agree, but to a point.

We will win until we actually have to “produce” something. I guess all of the factories are still here, but does anyone know how to use that stuff to make other stuff? Just wondering.....

[quant5]

“I agree, but to a point.

We will win until we actually have to “produce” something. I guess all of the factories are still here, but does anyone know how to use that stuff to make other stuff? Just wondering.....”

We did it in WWII in less then a year and if needs be, I am sure we will do what we need to.

[El Gato]

I guess all of the factories are still here, but does anyone know how to use that stuff to make other stuff?

Doesn't really matter, *those* factories are old, creaky and obsolete or at least obsolescent.

[snowsislander]

We will win until we actually have to “produce” something. I guess all of the factories are still here, but does anyone know how to use that stuff to make other stuff?

I do know that in at least in some cases that I am familiar with that shut factories were stripped of their machinery which was then sold overseas (and at least in one case I know of it included machinery which was obsolescent even when it was installed almost 50 years ago.)

I have no idea how common this is, but I think that most owners of closed factories and equipment would be inclined to try to sell anything they could for whatever they could get rather than just let the facility sit idle.