I purchased a kitchen mixer repair set on-line from Bunnings.
It arrived yesterday in this box:
The set I ordered is very small and 50 or maybe a hundred could have fitted in that box:
The part I wanted is a small horseshoe washer:
This is to anchor the kitchen tap mixer where the old washer has disintegrated.
I went to Bunnings, Mitre 10, Plumber's World and other trade stores but was unable to buy a single washer. The kit that I eventually bought from Bunnings on-line cost $23. The same kit at Plumber's World, after a trade discount that the embarrassed salesman offered, was $70. I only need the little washer not the whole kit but relented and paid the $23.
Somewhere in the word is a factory pumping out millions of these washers that are sitting in boxes on shelves in their warehouse.
Go figure.
Yep - thought so.
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ReplyDelete"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. For those who did not stock up on holy grommets and washers, lo I say to thee - too fucking late - my will has been done with the assistance of my servant Little Rocket Man."
Revelations 22 (1-5)