Re: werner s2210

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On 8/02/10, Dave Harness wrote:
> 08/02/2010: s2210 Both bottom hinges broke in half while climbing up
> ladder tonight. Extremely lucky to walk away with just a couple
> bruises. I weighed myself tonight at 186 lbs (that's hardly
> approaching the 300 lb limit). I had nothing in my hands while
> climbing the ladder, so clearly the 300lb limit was wrong. Both lower
> hinges on the left and right snapped in half with the lower 1/3 of the
> ladder falling onto to floor. This is surely a manufacturing defect,
> and Werner needs to recall these before further people are injured.
> I'll be calling Werner and Lowe's tomorrow to see if either is willing
> to replace the defective unit.

I noticed that many people are just replacing the broken hinges (leaving the other original hinges
in place) on their Werner S2208 and S2210 ladders. Since I have seen reports of both the top and
bottom hinges breaking, I am wondering why these people are not replacing all of the original
hinges and why they have confidence that the other original hinges wonlt also break.