I finally received an email reply from USA Airbrush and was told basically the same thing. Their phone inbox is still full, however. Apparently, as TomD. said, everyone is having trouble getting Badger stuff these days. Because I am unable to locate the airbrush I want, I, against my better judgement, went to Amazon and found one there for an extremely low price compared to the online prices of other vendors. Being a bit suspicious, I contacted the seller and asked if they, or Amazon, set the price. He told me Amazon controls the prices seen on their pages which surprised me. I told him he would be the second to know if the airbrush turned out to be faulty. Any port in a storm, I guess.
Doug