by billdeserthills » 9 Feb 2019 18:08
Thing is Master Padlock has to award their CEO a huge cash bonus every year, so they need to constantly be cheapening their product, in order to scrape up that big pile of money. It isn't just Master padlock, if you take a look at any of Black & Decker's (Baldwin, Kwikset & Weiser) products you'll see the same type cheapening of products. Look at the Schlage deadbolt sold by hardware stores--they have now removed all the brass (except the retainer cap pin) in favor of using cheap pot metal. All these company's have learned that as long as they all make a cheap, junky product the consumer will have nowhere else to turn & their junky junk will continue to sell.
Look at the latches used nowadays--No grease present in most of them because that would make them last longer & planned obsolescence won't stand for that
This is why I like to put my own grease into moving parts that I service--that's how I say F You to all these company's
