On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:15:31 -0800, Todd wrote:

On 12/13/2014 08:16 AM, RobertMacy wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:34:00 -0700, Todd wrote:

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Get a stainless steel unit. no rust. last much longer

uh, you must have missed my VERY long diatribe regarding the phrase
'stainless steel' in OUR kitchen. Our kitchen is all SS appliances. We
have a sheen of brown forming over the fridge surface every few days
which must be wiped off. The SS sink has little spots etc. Only the GE
[yecch!] appliances are not so bad, just streak etc.

In another home, I actually had a pinhole rust right through a 'high
end' SS sink!

But maybe SS insides might be a bit better, but it was my undeerstanding
that ALL blades [and insides] were pretty much standard iron products
and open to rusting.

I go to the part about rust and presumed it was conventional
steel

Most of my GD failures have been either the aluminum casing rotting
out or water getting to the motor bearings and seizing them up. I've
never had the cutters go bad before something else did in MY personal
house but I have had renters that let crap fall in and destroy the
grinding mechanism parts.