I just picked up a handful of OA welding rod at the local welding eq.
supplier.  Paid $18 for nothing but a bundle of clean shiny  1/16" steel
wires, but then I read the fine-print on the invoice and saw I was
charged a $3.50 HazMat fee ?????

That little bundle of wires is no more hazardous than a box of nails or
a chocolate donut!  Did I just get ripped off, or is everybody getting
ripped off?

R Berglund


If you are not in California as I am, you need to understand that the
libs in your state learned from the libs here in Cali. So yes, we here
in CA have been getting ripped for a very LONG time, taxed on every
imaginable over the counter item, including welding stuff. Now that the
EPA has officially called Co2 a pollutant, look out; and please, for the sake of this, the greatest country to have ever existed,  Don't Follow California on anything political.

Ed Carver