Technical "Quart" of Bondo is a joke

At our local paint and hardware, the paint to be mixed has less than a gallon, it's a gallon when the tint has been added, while the stock colors are a full gallon. But, you have to look. Neither are $10 anymore

 

Spam used to at least be edible.

 

On or off? If you're 3 inches short, you're probably getting it on your shoes.

 

Around here Ever coat is about a $100 a gallon can, about 3/4 full, 3ms Bondo brand is about 40 and it is half full. But since I don't build cars out of it, just shim coats for minor imperfections I use the 3m, besides my local Napa carries it. Ever coat I have to special order and have to pay shipping or drive 35 miles to Madison and get it from Body Shop supply or Finish Masters. I have no idea how anybody that still does this for a living is surviving. Larry.

 

The makers of all of these products have studied and know to the decimal point how we buyers will react to packages that cost about the same and appear the same size but with less content vs them raising prices for unchanged package/content. They know what we will do before we do it. So to quote Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us!" Shrinking quantity must work or they wouldn't do it.
Years ago, when I first began to buy my own stuff with my own money, I noticed a pattern that, as I developed a preference for one particular goop over the others, eventually something that worked well for me suddenly had a "New And Improved" banner splashed over the package. Usually, that has meant that the "improved" goop did not work as well as the old stuff. Basically, "New" was code for becoming lower-quality versions of the originals.
As bad as the current round of "shrinkflation" is....... the shell game of paying more to get less has been going on for longer than I've been alive.

 

On hand pkg supplies need to be used up. Also retooling for odd size by the plastic container manufacturer, ( a separate industry ) runs the cost up.
In time... I suspect, containers and packing cartons will catch up.
Meanwhile shipping charges are based solely on weight.
( Until a pkg. is 'oversize' @ 72 or 54 inches, I forget which )

 

Let's see. $849.99 divided by 1844 cans = $0.46 a can. That sounds about right for PBR, but that's probably the "warm" price.

 

25.4 is exactly how many millimeters there are in an inch

 

But have you seen the price a for good fake I.D. these days??!!

 

You were just hungrier in the old days.

 

I’ve never met you, but would bet the farm you can’t pass for 17

 

Haven't been able or needed to for a couple few several years. And I'll just leave it at that.

 

Yea but . . . . I'm an old dude and I look at a can of stuff and figure whether that can of stuff is big enuf to do the deed I am planning in my brain. Not near smart enuf to look at the weight of stuff inside the can and convert that to the size of glop I need to do my deed. I'm too old. Need to fade away.

 

Or just heft the can, if it feels light, get two of them.

Or do more metalwork first.

 

I don't use much body filler of any brand on cars. I mainly use it to smooth wood constructs - custom arm rests, center consoles and such. Also use it to cast model car parts in silicone rubber molds. Regardless, seems a waste of money to build a quart steel can to hold a pint of product.

 

Quart cans are far more commonly used so cheaper. The amount of material difference is probably minimal so volume reduces cost.

 

Opened a regular sized box of crackers the other day and the top of the package was 2 inches down from the top of the box. Everybody is doing it.

 

One of my assignments in the engineering dept @ Fresno State was to develop an equation to calculate the dimeter and height of a metal can to use the minimum material for a given volume! Lowest cost container.

 

I always get my money's worth when buying packs like this, because I always open them from the bottom.

Bog is like filler, except we use funnel web spider venom as catalyst.

 

That doesn't change what happens in the real world. Quart cans are cheaper to buy than pints. You need different sized labels you need different sized shipping boxes so when you make multiple products that go in quarts and one or two that go in pints it's a money losing venture using a smaller can.

 

But you will get your money's worth out of that BONDO, because it will take as much time & sandpaper to knock that 1/2 qt down as it does a whole gallon of good stuff.

 

how about iron city beer? i seem to remember 50 cents a quart .now late ex wife used to love it and the boones farm/
gas was 29.9 for reg HT was 33.9 a gallon, my 64 impala ss's 409 /425 would burp driving past any gas station

 

heck they can't even change a flat tire or know where the spare is if the car has one,

 

A local bar had a cat that hung around. One of the patrons made a bar bet that his junk was as long as the cat's tail. Everyone got in on it and measuring began. The cat's tail came in at 8", the betting patron at 6½, who immediately cried "Foul! No fair! You measured all the way to his asshole!" The relevance is up to y'all to sort out...

 

Unfortunately, 1844 cans of PBR, at any price, does not equal a six-pack of good beer.

 

You have no taste. I am admittedly a beer snob and frequent our amazing local breweries and tap houses but I always keep a sixxer of PBR or Hamms tallboys in the fridge for something light and cold.

 

Ya see, dividing feet by 10....... that's proof that the conspiracy to switch us to metric started way back farther than we suspected.
You can't drop your guard for a minute. We're surrounded by assassins.

 

Being from Pennsylvania, he probably thinks Yuengling is good beer...

 

I cheated as a youngster, I'd buy a 6 pack of good beer, (coors, Busch etc) and then a 12 pack of the cheapest stuff on the shelf (keystone).

By the time I got thru the 6 pack I didn't care what the rest tasted like, it was alcohol and that's all that matters.

@36roadster I tried that opening from the bottom once but my chips fell all over the floor!

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Anyone bought a large bag of potato chips lately only to find the bag half full???