$100 Screwdrivers?

[doc540]

hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"

[mr surveyor]

sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)

[Longitude Zero]

I would gladly pay that for a hammer that never missed and never bent the nail.

[les strat]

sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)

I was thinking the same thing

They had to pay for all that top secret UFO study stuff out west somehow!

[gb6491]

$100 Screwdrivers?

hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"

sounds like DoD purchase prices during the 70's and 80's (remember the claw hammer and toilet seat controversy?)

Naw, these prices are driven by an even more nefarious group, Smith and Wesson Collectors
Regards,
Greg

[Barth]

Naw, these prices are driven by an even more nefarious group, Smith and Wesson Collectors
Regards,
Greg

Smith and Wesson Collectors?
I think I may resemble that remark.

[muggsy]

hooly mooly....even tools, manuals, boxes, and cleaning kits have gone through the roof!

early '50's K-22 "Sight Adjustment Tool"

The price quoted includes the cost of government regulation. The actual cost of the screw driver is $1.49

[HDoc]

The price quoted includes the cost of government regulation. The actual cost of the screw driver is $1.49

Absolutely correct. That toilet seat required a metallurgical analysis, 45 page manual and about 20 certifications that made it's cost absurd. Back then, if it wasn't in the contract you couldn't just go out and buy one. Plus there was cost averaging where the $1000 to make item was billed at $500 and the $10 item at $505. NOT the contractors doing.