Perhaps I'm the only one that did not know about bleach and stainless
steel incompatability, but I've now learned an expensive lesson. Just
prior to going away for 2 weeks, I put a liberal dose of neat bleach in
the kitchen stainless steel sink. On my return, I found that the
bleach had eaten clean through the sink, leaving a 10mm x 5 mm hole
through to the cupboard below. It also had eaten through the plug
chain, which came apart in my hand as I pulled the plug out.

CRB

crb wrote:
Perhaps I'm the only one that did not know about bleach and stainless
steel incompatability, but I've now learned an expensive lesson. Just
prior to going away for 2 weeks, I put a liberal dose of neat bleach in
the kitchen stainless steel sink. On my return, I found that the
bleach had eaten clean through the sink, leaving a 10mm x 5 mm hole
through to the cupboard below. It also had eaten through the plug
chain, which came apart in my hand as I pulled the plug out.

CRB

dont feed the troll

NT

dont feed the troll

NT

Well, I've never seen anything quite like that in a stainless steel sink.
But I have seen pictures of quite substantial high alloy steel structures
that have been eaten by stress corrosion cracking, caused by chloride.

Newshound wrote:

dont feed the troll

NT


Well, I've never seen anything quite like that in a stainless steel sink.
But I have seen pictures of quite substantial high alloy steel structures
that have been eaten by stress corrosion cracking, caused by chloride.

Hummm, we spill 100% twaddle caustic on stainless sometimes, never seen
any holes, eats aluminium though.