Chris_Robb
Well-Known Member
I recently bought from West Marine some C link connectors following Vyv Cox's useful article on them in YM last year.
West Marine's product advertised on line the ACCO chain connector - drop forged, heat treated links. What Westmarine actually sent was cheap cast link marked CHINA G30.
West Marine have been extrmely applogogetic about this. It apperars that ACCO Chains was taken over by Peerless chains, who substituted an inferior product, still labelling it with the same ACCO part number.
In Vyv's tests these particular links had prooved VERY unreliable.
West Marine have refunded without question. I have asked them to check their records as a number of UK customers may well have bought in the last few months as a reslt of Vyv's article.
If you have bought these you should check the markings on the chains - if it is CHINA G30 then you should contact West Marine.
West Marine's product advertised on line the ACCO chain connector - drop forged, heat treated links. What Westmarine actually sent was cheap cast link marked CHINA G30.
West Marine have been extrmely applogogetic about this. It apperars that ACCO Chains was taken over by Peerless chains, who substituted an inferior product, still labelling it with the same ACCO part number.
In Vyv's tests these particular links had prooved VERY unreliable.
West Marine have refunded without question. I have asked them to check their records as a number of UK customers may well have bought in the last few months as a reslt of Vyv's article.
If you have bought these you should check the markings on the chains - if it is CHINA G30 then you should contact West Marine.