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Sometimes it hurts being cheap!
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It never hurts being cheap!
I work in purchasing at a large manufacturing plant and being cheap is my job. I take pride in my cheapness. However, most people only look at purchase price as the total cost. Not true! Look:
If you buy 1 "polishing kit" for $5.00 and you can do 10 pieces with that kit you are paying $.50 per piece for materials. Lets say your time is worth $10 per hour and with the lower quality kit you spend 3 hours doing 1 part. The cost of that part is $30.50.
Now let's say you buy a higher quality kit for $40.00 that can do those same 10 parts. Now your cost is $4.00 in material per piece. But because of the higher quality of the kit you can do the pieces in half the time. Your labor cost would be $15.00 plus the $4.00 for a grand total of $19.00 per piece.
That's about a 35% savings!
And that's about the limitations of my brain. There's a whole lot of other factors but I am not an economics professor, just a dumb ol' purchasing guy.
Next time someone calls you cheap, take pride in it
BTW, You may try sanding down to a 220 or even lower. Also, it is my experience that different aluminums polish differently. I did some pieces of an '86 Honda and couldn't get all of the scratches out for anything. I also couldn't get the high lustre out of them like I have on other pieces.
Cheap aluminum, I guess.
