[AT] Oddball pricing

Larry Mason lcmason at uslink.net
Fri Jan 30 23:01:06 PST 2015


I like the filling it with concrete and watch for the thefts happening. 
Unfortunately what happens is old gas (plastic) cans have no new lids 
available. The replacement lids only fit the new set of cans. oh well!

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indiana Robinson
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 5:21 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] Oddball pricing

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
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