During the 1970’s and early 1980’s, our belief was that our catalog needed only pictures, descriptions, and part numbers---simplicity. We never included details of our designing and testing, or any other technical information for that matter. We thought most of that information might be a bit prolific, and our customers simply wouldn’t be interested.

Then during the mid 1980’s, along came a northwestern competitor who printed such absurd statements, customers complained of being confused by the contradictions between their catalog and ours. The fall-out from this indicated that from now on merely telling the truth wouldn’t be good enough, we would also have to prove we were telling the truth.

Our catalogs started including names, dates, places, photos of our actual test equipment, and enough technical information to support our claims. Since the mid 1980’s, Downey’s catalog has blossomed well beyond the inclusion of techie-talkie information needed to address “contradictions”. Today we also supply the ultra high-tech information needed to walk you through the most complicated of: