Message for Chuck Davis about Certanium Rods

When I asked for opinions about good or bad brands of welding rods a few days ago, you had very favorable things to say about Certanium brand. You mentioned that the over the counter price could cause your knees to buckle. I looked for Certanium on eBay and found a seller who had three unopened 2.5lb packages of Certanium 707 for auction. I thought I'd bid on it if it didn't get out of hand. Well, it did get out of hand, by my way of looking at it at least. It sold for $72.50. Together with the (totally unreasonable) shipping cost of $17.06, the winning bidder paid $89.56, or $11.94/lb. for it. Authenticated fragments of the true cross don't go for that much. (Of course the total volume of authenticated fragments of the true cross is far in excess of all the 707 rod Certanium ever made---but still.)

Thought you might be interested, Stan

I leave a lot of auctions with nothing.If i have to have something right away i go to the store.

I really don't know what they charge for a pound of 707. If i remember right it was about 3 times what 7018 was going for.

The 889 rod is their Cast Iron rod. I will say this again it's the best stuff by far i have ever run but not for that kind of cash.