[AT] Oddball pricing

jahaze at aol.com jahaze at aol.com
Fri Jan 30 16:20:45 PST 2015


I'd be interested in finding a solution as well.  I saw three nice plastic 5 gal gas cans out by the trash last year.  So I had to stop and pick them up.  All three are missing spouts.

Enjoy, Joe

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> On Jan 30, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.  :-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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