DIYbanter - View Single Post - wierdness in Excalibur ad...stainless steel not reliably straight?

s wrote:

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:57:58 -0600, Chris Friesen
wrote:

I saw the following in an ad for Excalibur:

"...we won't use stainless steel for guide rails for example. It is
just not reliably straight enough for our standards..."

Why would stainless be any less straight than any other kind of steel?

Chris

starrett makes high end straight edges from stainless. they are very
expensive.

They don't buy 'em that way, either...they mill/grind them to get the
spec's they want...

cheap stainless tends to be soft.

As compared to???