In article ,
Roger Hayter wrote:
I've got a cheap "stainless steel" Ebay gate stay that has quite a lot
of surface rust after a year outside. It actually looked like SS when
new. No metallurgical tests performed, maybe it is some kind of SS?

You can get surface rust on low grade SS - but it should take a long time
to get really bad, unlike MS.

--
*Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.