D K wrote:
Calif Bill wrote:
"D K" wrote:
Make sure you use monel or stainless steel staples!

Take a magnet to the "monel" staples at the store. Cheap *******s
have swapped boxes at times with the much cheaper steel staples.


Amazing. So some idiot will risk a misdemeanor charge to save a few bucks?

Take a magnet to *anything* that is supposed to be Monel, Stainless,
Brass or Bronze at *any* store, *including* chandlers!

One such chandler ended up taking his entire stock of bronze snap
shackles off the rack after I brought back one that the pin had seized
after two weeks use, and I demonstrated that *every* one on the rack was
strongly attracted to the magnet I had bought with me.

Apparently someone in the supply chain had goofed or fraudulently
pocketed the difference and supplied the manufacturer with a batch of
plated steel springs.

Oddly enough I am still welcome in that chandler as he reckoned he'd
rather find they weren't fit for purpose before they were sold than deal
with the customer complaints. A rare attitude nowadays.


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