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   FastEddie1 | Dec 11, 2002 05:36pm | #1

   Do you have to put it on with a EuroRoller (10 cm)?  Did you pay for it with EuroDollars?

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   PhillGiles | Dec 11, 2002 06:07pm | #2

   Everything I buy is in 946ml or 3.79l cans no matter which side of the border it was made on.

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   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   observer | Dec 11, 2002 07:15pm | #3

   Interestingly enough, 3.79 litres is one american gallon. Twenty years ago we actually got one canadian gallon when we bought a gallon of paint.

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   bobl | Dec 11, 2002 07:48pm | #4

   Schreuder is the manufacturer, and I've seen it called Dutch Paint, it is made in Holland.

   Interestingly, they also make the paint sold under the name Martha Stewert (sp).  I didn't look to see how big that "gallon" is,

   thanks for the info.bobl          Volo Non Voleo      Joe's cheat sheet

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   Mugsy | Dec 11, 2002 08:36pm | #5

   "Interestingly, they also make the paint sold under the name Martha Stewert (sp).  I didn't look to see how big that "gallon" is,"

   No, they don't.  They sell their paint in a collection of Martha Stewart colors. (In euro-quarts and euro-gallons) The Martha Stewart paint is sold at K-Mart and maybe other places.  They are not the same.

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   bobl | Dec 12, 2002 12:16am | #10

   I stand corrected

   http://www.finepaints.com/html/products/ms_collection.htmlbobl          Volo Non Voleo      Joe's cheat sheet

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   ReinTaul | Dec 12, 2002 03:13am | #13

   Actually, the Martha Stewart paint comes in both sizes of can for the same price.

   When you or I go to buy it, it turns out that Martha and her friends got to all the bigger cans the day before. :-(Women and men of wit are dangerous tools,And ever fatal to admiring fools.

   - John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester

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   PhillGiles | Dec 11, 2002 08:48pm | #6

   Yes, but not any more. When we went metric, companies like CIL no longer felt the need to make the full gallon cans; especially since they were unmarketable in the US (no-one could understand the 5-quart gallon or why it would cost more than a US 4-quart gallon)..

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   Mugsy | Dec 11, 2002 08:52pm | #7

   What an a s s   you are!

   Edited 12/11/2002 12:52:49 PM ET by Mugsy

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   HammerHarry | Dec 12, 2002 02:53am | #12

   My goodness, what a pithy remark.

   Actually, it's 3.78 liters, but who's counting......

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   observer | Dec 11, 2002 11:35pm | #8

   I was doing rental apartment repaints back then and the price for the American gallon size stayed the same as what I had been paying for Imperial gallons.

   Seems to be the way marketing usually works. I wonder how the price compares when you calculate those Euro gallons up to the 3.79 L size. I bet its up five or more percent.

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   PhillGiles | Dec 11, 2002 11:48pm | #9

   Just like coffee, you used to buy a 1 pound tin of coffee, which became a 454g tin of coffee, which became a 400g, ... now the same size tin only has 300g of coffee in it - marketing is all perception..

   Phill Giles

   The Unionville Woodwright

   Unionville, Ontario

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   observer | Dec 12, 2002 12:35am | #11

   There was some good came from that coffee sleight-of-hand. The price got so high in the can that beans became the option of choice. I'm enjoying much fresher and better coffee these days as a result.