[modeleng] Re: Prices

Yep, and to my knowledge, we can't just tootle off down the road to our
local club and swap ideas on the best way to quarter the drivers on our
project.  Here in New York bloody City there's nary a live steamer in
sight

On 3/29/2008, "TEL" <tel47@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Yep, the 'murricans certainly have it good price-wise. By the same token,
>spare a little pity for us deep southeners - I find it cheaper to buy (as
>well as a greater range) BA fasteners from EKP and pay the o/s postage.
>
>
>> A pal has just returned from a holiday in the US, and bought back a load
>of
>> catalogues.
>> I am astounded at how low prices are in America compares to what we have
>to
>> pay.
>>
>> If you compare Harbor Freight with Machine Mart, for products that appear
>> identical, and probably are as so much is made in China, the US price is
>> between 35% and 50% of the UK price.
>>
>> Looking at Grizzly, most things are half what we pay, some much less.
>>
>> Sadly, he only bought back catalogues and not cases full of goodies!
>>
>> http://www.alanstepney.info
>> Alan Stepney's Model Engineering, steam, and workshop pages.
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