11-11-2021, 06:59 AM
(11-11-2021, 06:55 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote:(11-11-2021, 06:41 AM)j3gq_imp Wrote: After my wife had bought a product for silverware, which said “all shiny metals”, I wondered. She had paid 1.45 for a can twice the size of my very special header cleaner bought a while ago. And that thing was “only” 9.99. So I squeezed a bit out of both products, side by side, and what I found ? Same color, same smell, same touch. So I did one header pipe with the first, the nxt with the other product. Sure, you guessed it .... that’s how the m/c suppliers make money. No need to develop a product, and test it. Just sell it in different tubes, under a different brand, and add a really, really nice margin.Hmm .... ?
Can confirm. I did a little research, and plenty of car care products are made by bulk suppliers, and different scents and additives are put in to make them into boutique brands. Our company had a sponsor called "Stuff", which was a line of polishes that were supposedly made in a laboratory in Pasadena, CA. We met the "chemist" in their facility. They were so proud of their products that they hand-signed every bottle. But, when they went out of business, owing us a lot of money, we did a little digging and found that Stuff wasn't really made in their own laboratory.. nor did they have one. It was a bulk polish that they just branded, and that was also available under other names, "Sold in finer grocery stores everywhere."
By the way... anyone ever try Brasso to polish stainless pipes? I probably have a can of it in the garage somewhere, but if I hear the name or see the logo, I start getting flashbacks of a drill instructor yelling at me about my belt buckle and buttons, so I haven't touched the stuff since the 80s. But it did work wonders, and I see it's still on the market.
Can confirm. I did a little research, and plenty of car care products are made by bulk suppliers, and different scents and additives are put in to make them into boutique brands. Our company had a sponsor called "Stuff", which was a line of polishes that were supposedly made in a laboratory in Pasadena, CA. We met the "chemist" in their facility. They were so proud of their products that they hand-signed every bottle. But, when they went out of business, owing us a lot of money, we did a little digging and found that Stuff wasn't really made in their own laboratory.. nor did they have one. It was a bulk polish that they just branded, and that was also available under other names, "Sold in finer grocery stores everywhere."
By the way... anyone ever try Brasso to polish stainless pipes? I probably have a can of it in the garage somewhere, but if I hear the name or see the logo, I start getting flashbacks of a drill instructor yelling at me about my belt buckle and buttons, so I haven't touched the stuff since the 80s. But it did work wonders...
If using Brasso, you'll be earning polished SS pipes in a hard way.