Please enlighten me: Although I realize that in certain applications (like the space shuttle or nuclear powerplants) there are very specific performance requirements for the use & design of O-rings, in more mundane, normal automotive or motorcycle applications why do some O-rings seem so unrea$onably (?) expen$ive?
Point in contention: in my SVX power steering system all the O-rings on the high pressure side EXCEPT one are in the $0.75 to $2.00 range. One of them is $9.83, the last one, with a screw on hose pressure fitting going to the rack.
I understand that there are three basic characteristics: the nature of the material itself (rubber, Vitron(?), neoprene, etc.) the circumference and the diameter.
But, why is one $0 much more expen$ive than the others?
Cheers!
Point in contention: in my SVX power steering system all the O-rings on the high pressure side EXCEPT one are in the $0.75 to $2.00 range. One of them is $9.83, the last one, with a screw on hose pressure fitting going to the rack.
I understand that there are three basic characteristics: the nature of the material itself (rubber, Vitron(?), neoprene, etc.) the circumference and the diameter.
But, why is one $0 much more expen$ive than the others?
Cheers!