They did; and were so impressed that the British Government purchased in America a full set of machines for the manufacture of arms in the Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield, England, and took across the sea American workmen and foremen to set up and run these machines.

A demand sprang up in Europe for Blanchard copying lathes and a hundred other American tools, and from this time on the manufacture of tools and appliances for other manufacturers, both at home and abroad, became an increasingly important industry of New England.
* Henry Barnard, "Armsmear", p.

371.
The system which the gunmakers worked out and developed to meet their own requirements was capable of indefinite expansion.

It was easily adapted to other kinds of manufacture.

So it was that as new inventions came in the manufacturers of these found many of the needed tools ready for them, and any special modifications could be quickly made.
A manufacturer, of machine tools will produce on demand a device to perform any operation, however difficult or intricate.