"Marine" speakers

I know this was a topic already, but this is a personal experience post more than a question.<br /><br />My boat has 4 speakers, 2 in the cabin and 2 at the helm. <br /><br />The 2 at the helm are shot.<br /><br />My friend had a brand new pair of "pyramid" marine speakers lying around that he never installed, still in the box. <br /><br />I know, pyramid is the bottom of the line, but these are good looking speakers, all poly, large magnet structure. My original speakers were 5.25" and these are 6.5", so I enlarged the holes and installed them. They sound awesome. <br /><br />Here's the kicker. The screws that came with these 'marine' speakers are compeltely brown, with rust stains starting to streak off them, in ONE DAY. Yes one day. I installed them in the morning, went fishing, and the next day when cleaning the boat I noticed it. <br /><br />Pissed me off. I already replaced the screws with stainless ones I have around. I tossed the original ones thinking these new ones must be stainless since these are 'marine' speakers. HA!

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Speakers are "marine" grade but not the screws.... is that something.

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I have had the same thing happen.Charlie

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Sounds like you got screwed.... <br /><br />Sorry, couldn't resist!

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There's no law preventing anyone from labelling anything as "Marine" grade. Some are, some are sort-of, and some aren't. Salt-water marine environments are amazingly hostile to a large number of materials. Making a component truly marine-quality sometimes involbes more costs and engineering than the manufacturer feels like paying, so they just stick the label on. <br /><br />Welcome to the free-market uncontrolled world of boating. You want the government off your back you got it here! Take every claim with skepticism until you have checked it out!

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All I can say is at least they were free to me. Had the stainless screws in the garage too to fix it. <br /><br />Luna, very funny.

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Steve<br />You say they have a large magnet. You may want to check your compass and adjust if neccessary before you need it out in the fog.

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Thanks Boatist. They're a good 6 feet from the compass at least. And the magnet is large compared to a normal size 6.5" speaker magnet, but not huge. Maybe 3" across.

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A pretty good (but not perfect) way to determine if hardware is stainless steel is to see if it is atracted to a magnet. Stainless steel is not, normal steel hardware is.