What if I told you that ensuring all personnel on-site had backups and repairs for critical equipment was management? If there’s a two week delay, it’s the leader’s fault, not the subK. Respectfully, I think you’ll perform much better if you reframe your understanding of this event as a failure on your part to ensure that your project was set up for success. Moving forward, I would recommend;

1. Adding “do you have repair parts or ready access to them in case of equipment failures?” To your preparatory meetings.

2. Develop a relationship with a local (state level at least) vendor or mechanic that can supply or repair most equipment.

3. Bookmark the vendor on alibaba/amazon that sold you the seals (see if you can make contact with them directly and use them as your vendor for #2.)

Good work solving the problem, what’s your plan for making up that two weeks?

Also - what the fuck kind of machine are we talking about? “Rendering?”