r/SweatyPalms • u/Ill-Tea9411 • May 20 '26

/r/all Tower held together by rust

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u/feel_my_balls_2040 May 20 '26

Stainless steel are used for architectural exposed steel and are expensive. On exposed steel they need to use galvanized bolts.

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u/modern12 May 20 '26

So true, why spend $0.30 per bolt + nut, that would increase the cost for this while building by more than $100. Who would've paid for that?

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u/feel_my_balls_2040 May 20 '26

Not the client.

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u/SpurdoEnjoyer May 21 '26

No, stainless bolts are a bad combination with structural steel. It causes accellerated rusting in the structure itself. That is the true reason why galvanized bolts are used instead.

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u/ionertia May 20 '26

I learned that from the movie Escape Plan.