Oh bugger, here I go again...
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Bechet45 said:
mattyb240 said:
Bechet45 said:
I foresee a need to move house!
Well funny you should mention that Carl, I am in the process of moving.
The soap scum is just dry lather where I've not rinsed properly.
You see how lateral thinking works, Chris? I start with the cosmetics of a Weber DLC and correctly deduce a house move.
Which, as Vinny might say, has precisely the square root of sod all to do with Matty's DLC head going manky.
Bechet45 said:
Well MattyB - there's your answer! Weber get the blame for the results of user poor hygiene! There is a need to run your softest Welsh water all over your razor after use and wash away all the lather,inside and out!! Or we all know what happens!
Another case closed by DCI Bechet!
Sadly, correlation does not equal causation - one of the mantras of all good scientists, though heaven knows plenty of them still manage to forget it at times. It may be that Matty's sloppy cleaning practices have caused the damage, but I think it unlikely as the area of damage in the photo is the outside of the cap, where even the most cursory and lazy rinse under a tap would remove the vast majority of lather, unless he leaves it so long after finishing his shave that it's gone completely dry and crusty. Whether this supposition is correct or not is irrelevant - there's no means of demonstrating that it was the cause. Of course, it's a good idea to rinse properly, and I agree with you in suggesting that Matty makes sure he does this in future, but to say "case closed" suggests certainty, or at least significant confidence, and there's no way, other than guesswork, that any of us could come to a conclusion.
Given that we're inevitably dealing with anecdotal evidence here (of course, science abhors anecdotal evidence as it's rather like the dreaded "intermittent fault" you, Carl, possibly came across during your career - as soon as the hypothesis is tested, the evidence disappears!), I'd offer my own anecdote that I live in a hard water area, and, despite thorough cleaning that removes soap scum, a certain percentage remains, trapped in the limescale that can only be shifted with more aggressive cleaning. One might,therefore, expect that, if the DLC coating is of good quality, that, what affects it should also affect the chrome and nickel plating in my humble collection, which, I can assure you it doesn't. I return to the point I made earlier in this thread - if the DLC coating cannot tolerate sloppy cleaning practices, then they should offer a warning to that effect, even if it's a more UK-friendly "failure to remove all traces of soap scum from the DLC head may result in damage to the surface - if you don't clean it properly and it is damaged, it's your responsibility" or whatever is legally acceptable, as opposed to the arse-covering US style of legal disclaimers.
You know, without wishing to belittle Matty's annoyance, this is a rather unimportant matter in the grand scheme of things, and there's plenty of things I ought to be doing other than arguing the toss about it. I just have a dislike for sweeping conclusions being drawn in defence of a product on flimsy evidence. Of course, I agree that it's entirely plausible that, in this case it is "operator error", but there have been several examples of DLC heads corroding or otherwise degrading, which surely warrants a more open-minded response and desire for further and better evidence rather than a sweeping statement absolving the manufacturer of blame?
