[C320-list] GFO Dripless Packing Size - and how-to for site search

[Robert Sloat]

Brian-The next time I come to Ontario fishing I’ll smuggle GFO instead of Bourbon or cigarettes.  If caught with illicit GFO how much jail time would be involved.  “Judge.  It’s made of Teflon which is inert so let me go please.”


On Apr 18, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Amiraults Family <amiraults at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Well, the GFO came Thursday and I installed it this afternoon. I ordered ¼”
> and this turns out to be what I had installed 6 years ago. As predicted by
> others, the ¼” will only allow two rings to be installed – and that is just
> the number I found when I removed the old packing.
> 
> 
> 
> I won’t argue if America is still the land of the free but it certainly
> remains the land of the less costly. The packing was 19$ with free delivery
> to the continental US. Being Canadian the company deducted the value of the
> free shipping from the cost of shipping north. That reduced the shipping
> cost to 23$. Add to that the 22$ total owing for GST and UPS’ usurious
> brokerage fee to bring the package across the border and the total to my
> door was 64$.
> 
> 
> 
> With the one ring left over from the last order I only needed to take one
> length from the new order; leaving enough in reserve for two more rings. I
> won’t have to order again for 12 years. By then annexation may have reduced
> the cost.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Amirault
> 
> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
> 
> 
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Bob Sloat