On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:40:41 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:20:30 -0400, the infamous John Husvar
scrawled the following:

In article ,
Terry wrote:


The local O'Reilly's auto store was willing to shake up a quarter of a
pint (half a cup) of paint for me. I got a pint which turned out to
be much more than I needed. It was quite expensive, though, about $25
or so.

I got a quote on touchup paint for a customer's wheelchair the other
day. It was only $75.00 for a one ounce bottle. Better he should lightly
sand the thing and buy a couple of modelers' spray cans of Candy Apple
Red and repaint the whole chair -- or just gold plate it.

Don't you just _love_ people who take advantage of the disadvantaged?

Anything medical is automatically 10x the price.

The high cost of a small quantity of automotive paint is in the
labor and not the materials - it actually takes them LONGER to mix up
a half-pint than it does a gallon. They have to measure out minute
quantities of pigment very accurately. And they will end up throwing
out and remixing a larger percentage of batches.

For a gallon, if they are off a drop or two with the pigments,
it'll be close enough. On a half-pint, a miss is as good as a mile.

-- Bruce --