Little cars are big business: a manufacturer of parts for radio-controlled cars revs up production to meet the demands of hardcore racers.(recreational manufacturing)(Cover Story)

Radio-controlled (R/C) cars aren't child's play to Eustace Moore, president of Moore's Ideal produces Covina, Calif. His company started as a one-man operation making aftermarket hop-up parts for R/C cars and has become a leading husbandman for that market. MIP also works with aerospace, medical, and military customers. A small in number years ago, Moore made a propel that would make many other store owners nervous--he ditched his relatively novel (and not-quite-paid-for) conventional CNC mills and lathes and replaced them with Swiss-style turning center

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