Originally Posted by
1950landy
This really peas me off, These company's that sell stuff as Stainless Steel but use low grade SS.:firedevil:
My wife has a shower chair as she feels very un steady in the shower . We bought this chair just over a year ago ( out or warranty now) & it was quite expensive. It is suppose to be Stainless Steel which it is but is a low grade SS & the fact that it is not fully welded it fills up with water. The other night when she went to sit on it one of the legs collapsed because one of the spring loaded pins to adjust the height rusted. This is a medical add & should be made from medical grade or high grade SS. I have spent the morning drilling out all the pins & fitting 8mm bolts with lock nuts . This will do until I can find a better chair to replace it . May have to look at what hospitals use.
Another example are out lighting & fan under our pergola , We tell the lighting places we have a salt water pool so we want SS lighting & fan suitable for that averment only to have to replacement them every 3 years because they use low grade SS & the screws are not SS or brass. Our last fan fell down because the tube between the support bracket & the fan rusted from the in side out.:firedevil: