[jyl]

Not exactly the thread for this, but I don’t think it deserves a new thread.

I want a stainless steel outdoor sink next to my grill. Nothing fancy, just a basin and work area, I’ll feed the faucet from a garden hose and route the drain into a nearby gutter downspout. Portland has a combined storm/sanitary sewer system. I’ve been looking for a used commercial unit, but noticed a cheap outdoor sink on Amazon and bought that instead.

Oh my God. I haven’t seen anything so cheap and crappy since I was a little kid visiting Taiwan and China in the 1970s. It came direct from China. The base is square section light gauge steel, not stainless, not even as robust as a Campbells soup can, crudely spot welded together, ends roughly cut and deformed. You screw it together but you can’t tighten the screws much as the metal oil-cans. Heck, you can bend the pieces with your hands. Some of the ends don’t fit in the slots but you can just whack them into shape with, well, anything. I used the handle of a screwdriver. The basin and work surface is light gauge steel, again compare unfavorably to a soup can. The faucet might be steel, but it might also be chromed plastic. The drain is aluminum. The assembled sink can be lifted with two fingers. And it’s short, like for midgets. Seriously, there is nothing you can buy in any US store that even compares to this for low quality. I put it together, placed it by the grill, and was so disgusted that I’m not even going to hook it up. Nor am I going to return it back to China. It’s simply going in the trash.

I’m going back to looking for a used commercial unit. It’ll cost $400 and be heavy and ugly, but won’t make me feel like I’m furnishing a homeless camp.