Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:45:51 -0800
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: windshield fluid reservoir
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"I do have the advantage of if I try some juice for say 10 bucks...
it's always a deductible business expense, and in that sense it's not
pure raw money out of pocket."
Business expenses are quite handy that way!
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
On 01/07/2013 03:39 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
> HI Jack,
> I think that's a little cynical all right.
> 'mostly' I find that the quality of a companies products is generally
> fairly consistent across the line of products..
> especaily in good products, such as ..
> Lucas brand oil addtives
> SeaFoam fuel treatment ..
> BarsLeak anit-leak treatments.
> I must have 20 kinds of treatments around...
> yeah ...Water Wetter ..there's another good one.
> and so on.
>
> I'm sure they put some of their stuff that makes rain bead off the
> windshield in theirwasher fluid.
> I don't expect the washer fluid to work as well as the full strength
> applied-by-hand stuffdoes.
>
> I do have the advantage of if I try some juice for say 10 bucks...
> it's always a deductible business expense, and in that sense it's not
> pure raw money out of pocket.
>
> scott
>
>
>
> On 1/7/2013 1:57 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> On 01/06/2013 09:40 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>> Do you look at automotive products in stores ?
>>> there's a lot of interesting products out there.
>>
>> Of course! But I expect Sturgeon's Law -- that 90% of everything is crap
>> -- applies to items in the auto supply store and I don't have the $$$ to
>> buy everything in the store to see which 10% isn't. So I don't pay a lot
>> of attention.
>>
>> There are many, many examples of a company making one good product, then
>> slapping that name on a plethora of junk products. So it doesn't
>> automatically follow that just because the original Rain-X is good
>> stuff, that their follow-up products are particularly good. Call me
>> cynical but until someone recommends it to me, I figure that there's a
>> good chance that Rain-X windshield washer fluid is just Windex with a
>> different dye.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>
>> On 1/6/2013 9:02 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> > On 01/06/2013 06:28 PM, Richard A Jones wrote:
>> >> So just by a bottle of washer fluid that has the Rain-X added.
>> >
>> > They make such a thing?
>> >
>> > I'm always the last to know.
>>
>
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