[TR] Dum Dum?

[Don Hiscock]

John, things haven't changed all that much...
http://3mcollision.com/3m-strip-calk-08578-black.html

Don
Saint Louis MO
1962 TR3B TSF202L


On 6/26/12, John Macartney <flywheelcoventry1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>  > "Comes in a tube to be used in a caulking gun."
>
> On my word, what progress
> on the packaging side. It used to come in a large lump, coiled like a snake
> about to strike - and the coils were separated by thin pieces of
> translusent
> paper that didn't separate it at all. All the paper did was to tear into
> small
> pieces and stick to your fingers as you kneeded the compound to make it
> warm
> and pliable. Then they put it in a tin which required you to dig it out
> with
> your fingernails and an old (or new) screwdriver and that did those who
> favoured reasonable manicures a power of good.
> But maybe I'm talking of the
> bargain basement UK bulk packaged version where convenience and ease of use
> didn't even enter the product scenario.....
>
> Jonmac
>
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