Metal fatigue

Metal fatigue is an ailment that affects old Transformers.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 1 comics

Scrounge refused to tell Straxus about his spying, claiming that Straxus would become deaf from metal fatigue before he would talk. The Smelting Pool!

Generation 1 toy bios

Flintlock turned into a stress pistol which caused steel to develop metal fatigue and stress fractures. Landfill's toy bio