How times have changed and value has too.

Don't want to scare you, but have you thought about your equation the other way around?

Today's fuel costs around 0.06 Radios

Our teenaged fuel cost around 1.42 Radios

I THINK I got it right.... sort of....

The wonders of the cheep electronic age, designed cheaply, built cheaply, sold cheaply.

I reckon the difference is the radio you brought in 1977 could still be operational today; the $20 Tandy unit will be bugged in a few years, still as long as at dose what you need it to.

yea but here is all sorts of rubish around now. I bought a drill that drilled 1.5 holes and i had it back to the counter within 1/2 an hour. My mate bought a hacksaw that lasted 2 strokes (cmon now bit of maturity) and i bought a spade that couldnt dig 1 hole. You can still buy quality like GME for 500 bucks- how does that compare with the price of fuel?

When I was seventeen, back in 1975... do the math... , I bought an Alloy Body Makita Power Drill, with a 1/4" chuck.

30 years on, I went into Flintware, to buy another chuck key, and I brought the drill in with me, to suss out the right key.

The manager there openly said to me..."Ian, pick ANY powerdrill, on ANY of the two top shelves, and I'll swap you, that's all there is to it."

Man, there were drill from hell up there, but I have no need for any more, I've got lots, really.

I bought a chuck key, for $3.00

Still got the Makita.

I paid $40.00 for it up in Port Pirie, in 1975. The same sort of comparable drill now will cost say.... $130.00.

I usually go through 1 small pistol powerdrill, 2 x 100 mm. angle grinders each year. Throw them out, and buy new ones. I do not buy rubbish, I spend around $300.00 per item, but I use them for about 1 - 2 hours every day... they die.

My Makita didn't die, it's in retirement. Tracy has got a paint stirrer attached to it!

Wolfie

I bought a 40L weed pump sprayer from M something 10 for $20 - friggin bargain. was going to do the football field with Kamba to kill the wiregrass with some club members. Missed the weekend we planned because it was going to rain, next weekend in the saturday paper 8 hours before I was going to fill it with this stuff whose instructions advise openers to wear "boots, full length overalls done up at all points, chemical safe respirator and elbow length glovers" i read in the morning paper there was a "recall" cause it was liable to break open when full. Hmm, mum would not be impressed if dad carked on the football field soaked in Kamba.

Maybe this did go on a long time ago but i don't remember it.

Unfortunately a lot of the cheap stuff these days is just plain rubbish.
Most hardwares all stock there fair share of it especially the real big green ones.

I bought some tail lights for the camper trailer from Super not so cheap.
I couldn't buy the lense only like i wanted i had to buy the backing plate as well.
The backing plate was so badly made when you tightened the screws up it distorted it that much that you couldn't mount the lense.
Luckily the lense fitted the old backing plates
The new ones went in the bin

Cheers