You're talking about getting the tool, not having it done elsewhere, right?
No we have our broaching done by a couple local machine shops. Our machine shop is for R&D not production. But with one shop telling us 10 weeks and the other 15 weeks we might be better off buying our own gear shaper and doing it ourselves.
OS in your condition I don't think you should be drinking this early in the morning. You have wandered in the wrong door the TOAK thread is the next door down on your right. By the way glad to here you're doing all right.