Temper Bill.
To quote exactly:
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Originally Posted by Cathar
Every single product that has been anodised aluminium with the manufacturer swearing black and blue
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with - as in a product with accompanying statements that the product won't corrode,
not that every single anodized aluminium product from every manufacturer has had every single manufacturer making those claims.
The point being that just because a manufacturer says it won't corrode, that does not make it true.
Bill, there has even been the odd case where people have said that they used ~25% concentrations of corrosion inhibitor and still seen issues. Of course we don't know if the user is lying or not about the use of the inhibitor in the first place.
Forgive me, I have troubles grasping why, for the sake of a few dollars (maybe $5 or so), pumps or other items get made out of anodised aluminium, and then sold to the very same spend-thrift customers who can't be bothered to spend $5 on the corrosion protection required to prevent damage.
It doesn't make sense to me. Save $5 in manufacture and sale price, only to then burden the customer with the same $5 to protect the thing, except this time it's optional, which they clearly don't take that option far too often.
Just build the thing to suit the application in the first place. The headaches that I'm sure both you and I know all too well when dealing with items that may fail after sale, even if through customer ignorance/misuse, just isn't worth it in my opinion.
I was clearly wrong on the barbs in polycarb - I admit it. I ignored the lessons that were clearly being shown in other user's experiences of poly/acrylic tops from other manufacturers, and mistakenly chose to think that I could do better, mostly upon being urged by people telling me that's what they
really wanted. I was wrong. Bloody obvious now why they were failing eventually.
I just see an all too familiar parallel here, that's all.
On thinking on Greenman100, perhaps the quote from his sig has relevance here:
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
--Socrates
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I know I wish I had re: poly tops.