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There's a ball screw shortage.

The link is to a rather condescending NYT article.

Here's a more detailed article for people who actually need ball screws.[1] Only very high precision ball screws, like the ones for CNC machine positioning, some robots, and semiconductor wafer positioning, are really in short supply.

[1] https://www.sourcebyspec.com/news/ball-screw-supply-shortage...

Gotta love supply chains. Caching and queue theory as applied to meatspace.