This is hard to believe

Caryc

Well-known Member
I stopped in at TSC in Hemet to buy a new fitting with filter as you see below today. I saw on TSC's website that they had them so I figured I'd save the shipping charge.

Well, when I got there, the place on the wall hanger for them was empty along with a lot of other hangers. I talked to the guy at the customer service desk and he told me that "IT" and the other empty shelf hangers were because the items had certain cancer causing chemicals in them so they had to remove the items.

Now I'm wondering if it was just because the packaging for the items didn't have the "Warning" on the labels that certain chemicals in them were known to cause cancer?

Now the question is whether these companies will change their packaging so they can sell their product in California or just leave us stranded.

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Yes and I was in Harbor Freight a while back and they had removed some trailer tires because of some mislabeling...don't remember just what it was now. That was in Maine. They are going overboard on some of this stuff. When we were kide we used to play with mercury!!!! Maybe that is why I am overweight now!
 
Yep it is called lead which is common all over the place and has been for decades. What I really think is funny is here in Missouri there where lead mines all over the place but yet we do not die from lead poisoning from are wells
 
If you look closely at a few replacement automotive batteries, more and more of them are being made somewhere other than the good 'ol US of A. I've seen faraway places like Korea and Saudi Arabia. It's going to get worse. Most of the lead recyclers and battery remanufacturers have been shut down.
 
As a young kid a grown up told me I needed to "put some lead in your britches" so I found a lead sinker about the size of a marble but football shaped and swallowed it. Maybe that's why I think someone is going to buy my junk!! Or was it the mercury we use to roll around in our hand.
 
Hi, we used to play with mercury on this side of the pond too when we were kids. I remember finding some in an old electrical switch one day and I thought I had found 'gold'. Quite a lot going on over here about too much plastic packaging being used on goods and big firms planning to reduce it in 5 years or so.
A knock-on from this is milk containers. Was milk ever sold in the USA in glass pint bottles? Milk was delivered by the 'milkman' on his horse and cart initially then by electric 'float' vehicles or diesel or petrol powered ones until milk became so cheap in the supermarkets that it put the delivery milkmen out of business. Always been a sore point over here that the farmers never got a fair price for their milk. How does a pint of milk compare pricewise to a pint of beer in the US?
Anyway back to the tale; one enterprising 'milkman' has started delivering milk in glass bottles in the UK and apparently sold 12,000 in the first week!!!!! Funny how the public react to news, good or bad.
Cheers
DavidP, South Wales
 
A couple weeks ago we had a thread on asbestos in Canada, versus DeMaurier's and Export A's...

aghhh... 2... You sure he didn't say 'get the lead 'out'??? You weren't on McHale's PT109 were ya? That sinker still ain't... in there... is it?? That'll get an x ray lab something to think about...

Tell ya David, not that long ago, when cow grain cost more than the extra milk you'd get out of it, soft drinks were name brand retail only for miles around, but discount beer was all over, for a lot less money. So for an 18 year old to afford to splurge on friends... yes, beer was a better deal. There were no good deals when milking cows. So if you're selling either, yes, beer is a better deal...
 
Over here they drill Artesian Wells and pump the water out then bottle it and sell it as spring water. There were lots of natural springs beside the roads but now they say that they are not safe to drink out of. I've drank plenty of that spring water and it is far superior to the city water which is full of Fluoride and Chlorine and who knows what else. By the way the bottled "spring " water is more than a bottle of beer or soda. Figure that one out.
 
(quoted from post at 06:33:58 01/22/18) Over here they drill Artesian Wells and pump the water out then bottle it and sell it as spring water. There were lots of natural springs beside the roads but now they say that they are not safe to drink out of. I've drank plenty of that spring water and it is far superior to the city water which is full of Fluoride and Chlorine and who knows what else. By the way the bottled "spring " water is more than a bottle of beer or soda. Figure that one out.

In an Artesian well the water flows to the surface naturally and doesn't have to be pumped to the surface. The water in an Artesian well and a natural spring is the same water. It all comes from underground aquifers.
 
Well in this area we calla drilled well an Artesian well and a spring is water flowing naturally out of the ground, so I guess it is all according to the interpretation. Just saying.
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:28 01/22/18) Well in this area we calla drilled well an Artesian well and a spring is water flowing naturally out of the ground, so I guess it is all according to the interpretation. Just saying.

My water supply for 40 or so years is a well. When we purchased the land we had the well drilled. They hit water at 60 feet but when down to 120 feet. A pump keeps the pressure tank filled and available to the house. This is not an Artesian well.

Look up Artesian well on the net. It will probably surprise you. Artesian wells need no pumps.
 
I needed a new remote control for my Direct TV. They were pretty good about shipping. I ordered it yesterday and got it by FedEx today.

Check out the label that was on the plastic bag it was in.

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