Wow. I didn't come across any of this at all until I specifically looked it up. From what it looks like, it was a lot of really awful welding jobs.

I'm back to square one. Any suggestions where to start with a full sized versatile foldie? Montague? Dahon? Looks like Dahon has had a lot of failures as well. There's still been a lot of positive feedback coming up and no negative . unless I do a very specific search.