Originally Posted by ghornseth So-called "surgical stainless steel" is nothing more than type 304 or type 316 stainless. Both will machine the same--poorly.
All that the surgeons need is something that is relatively inert for short time exposure to body fluids (e.g. saline solutions about the concentration of sea water) and the ability to be sterilized in an autoclave without rusting/staining.
So, when the door-to-door salesman comes around hawking surgical stainless steel kitchen pots, you can have a laugh.
Good luck with it--I hate machining the stuff. |
You're partialy right except that surgical grade stainless is garanteed to be 100% nickle free. The human body can have adverse reactions to nickle, and a small percentage of the population has allergic reactions to it.