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If you quote from a source other then already posted it would be nice to know where from it came. Not that the info is wrong...
Stainless steels are rather picky as to how they are dealt with in a fabricating sense. To maintain their potentials the construction needs to be controlled far more then with more common/lower cost/non SS steels. Even the emery cloth and files need to be segregated from those used on non SS steels.
This is exactly what I was referring to, "Steels use a number of elements to create the characteristics and cost they seek". These added construction needs makes a SS frame more costly, everything else being equal. Andy