In search of grease

[unixronin]

I have a need for some Tetra Gun teflon grease.  (I have a tube somewhere; I just can't find it since we moved.  And actually, I don't even need it for firearms; I need it to carefully lubricate a few sticking spots in the load/unload mechanism of an LTO1 tape drive.)

Problem:  No-one locally seems to carry it.  I can find it online no problem, at around $4 for a one-ounce tube ... but then they want $12-$15 to ship it to me.  GROUND.  Hello?!?  WTF?  I could ship a one-ounce item across the US second-day air for that.  I could almost overnight it.  I shipped a HP calculator from California to Holland for less.

$15 domestic ground shipping for a $4 one-ounce item — that is neither fragile, perishable nor hazardous — goes beyond ludicrous into "How stupid are you trying to say I look?"

(Crossposted to guns)

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That would probably work, yes.

Unfortunately, further study appears to indicate the LTO1 drive may have deeper problems than just a friction problem when ejecting. It's erroring out in the middle of backup jobs too.