Re: stainless quality.. and BBQ.??


"Jimi" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I am a pipeline welder of 26 years. I really haven't had much to do
with stainless steel in my career. I want to buy a BBQ and have noticed
in the past 3-5 yrs that there are some pretty nice stainless BBQ's out
there for sale by Home Depot, Price Club etc... I also was told to watch
what you buy as some of those pretty "stainless" BBQ's eventually start to
rust!
This brings about the question of good and bad quality stainless and
knowing what to look for when buying a stainless BBQ.

Is there a non destructive test to do to check for good quality
stainless? I don't imagine that Home depot would be happy to see me going
at the side of a new bbq with an angle grinder to look at the sparks. I
suppose a magnet would be one way. Any other checks a person could make to
guarantee quality stainless before buying?

Has anyone bought a stainless BBQ that has started to show signs of rust
that would care to comment??


Thanks...Jimi


I have welded for 33 years now, and worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico,
and made a couple of hitches in Nigeria. Hey!

The thing about stainless steel to me is the cleaning. I have a Vermont
Castings bbq. It has stainless steel side tables, and a small amount of
stainless steel on the rest of it.

It is a pure D pain to keep looking good. I would never want to own a
stainless steel bbq, as I think it would be a constant effort to keep it
looking good.

I really fell in love with a big stainless steel bbq one time. It was
around $1,000. But, then, I needed a bbq for my vacation rental, and didn't
want to spend that much. So, I went $400 for a Vermont Castings. I really
like this grill, and the experience I have had keeping it looking
presentable showed me that I would have to really work 10x more to keep 10x
more SS looking sharp.

Megallurgically, rust depends on a lot of factors. It can come from the
wrong ingredients in the alloy. It can come from having steel in contact
with SS, and having the steel create a galvanic reaction that rusts the SS.
It can come from low grades of SS, corrosion, food components, all sorts of
things. Nothing lasts forever.

But you may be able to buy one that is guaranteed not to rust. Only problem
is then you have to keep it looking sharp.

Steve



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