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doc540
07-30-2012, 09:52 PM
hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/doc540/002-1.jpg
mr surveyor
07-30-2012, 10:12 PM
sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)
Longitude Zero
07-31-2012, 07:50 AM
I would gladly pay that for a hammer that never missed and never bent the nail.
les strat
07-31-2012, 09:12 AM
sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)

I was thinking the same thing :D

They had to pay for all that top secret UFO study stuff out west somehow!
gb6491
07-31-2012, 11:46 AM
hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/doc540/002-1.jpg


sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)
Naw, these prices are driven by an even more nefarious group, Smith and Wesson Collectorshttp://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sw022.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
Regards,
Greg
Barth
07-31-2012, 01:01 PM
Naw, these prices are driven by an even more nefarious group, Smith and Wesson Collectorshttp://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sw022.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
Regards,
Greg

Smith and Wesson Collectors?
I think I may resemble that remark.
muggsy
07-31-2012, 03:44 PM
hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/doc540/002-1.jpg

The price quoted includes the cost of government regulation. The actual cost of the screw driver is $1.49
HDoc
08-01-2012, 06:44 PM
The price quoted includes the cost of government regulation. The actual cost of the screw driver is $1.49
Absolutely correct. That toilet seat required a metallurgical analysis, 45 page manual and about 20 certifications that made it's cost absurd. Back then, if it wasn't in the contract you couldn't just go out and buy one. Plus there was cost averaging where the $1000 to make item was billed at $500 and the $10 item at $505. NOT the contractors doing.