[AT] Oddball pricing

[Indiana Robinson]

I was looking at my stash of plastic gasoline cans today and probably many
of us have a small herd of them that are a good can with a bad spout.
No problem, Rural King has replacement spouts. Yeah, right... At too near
the same price as a new can. Over $10.
They (and others) have the same silly approach on light trailer hitches
too. They sell the common 1 7/8" ball hitch complete for less than $10. The
repair kit for that same hitch is just a tick under $15. The only reason to
rebuild one is if yours is welded on to the trailer tongue. Even then why
wouldn't you just buy the whole thing for less than $10 and strip it for
the new parts instead of buying just the parts for almost $15?

On the gas can thing... Have any of you found a good "cheap" simple
replacement for those spouts?
I did think about cutting the bottom out of a 5 gallon one, supporting it
upside down and pouring it full of concrete. Then I would sit it in the
barn lot near the road and watch to see how many twits stop and try to
steal it.  :-)


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com