Yup see it all the time. That dashskin would probably run $150 through the PO. Not uncommon at all for shipping to be much more than the item you're buying.
Alot of companies that won't ship to AK use UPS only. Can't be bothered to set up an account with the PO which would pick it up from them...
Maybe you should let me borrow that tester Marty...... Will these are 2 stroke plugs and are oil fouled. Oil gets between the electrode and the ceramic and shorts them out. It doesn't take a ton of heat to get rid of the oil but it leaves carbon along with what is already in there. According...
Tried an experiment. I bought a cheap spark plug tester, found a plug that was so bad it wouldn't do anything. Took a torch to it and got the metal body a dull red . Then cleaned it and the video is the result.