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Originally Posted by DavidG
Apart from the entirely valid concerns regarding taper and diameter, what about the metallurgy? The color of a NOS ball stud tells you that it has undergone heat treating and the colors of the reproductions in the photo above shows no such evidence. These are kind of life-threatening parts if they fail in use. Does anyone believe that the metallurgy of these parts and others like them are equal to the originals? Not I.
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Dave, That occurred to me as well. I looked at the picture of the lathe cutter, carbide tip for certain and the chips... just seemed to be cutting it way too easily for a properly hardened part.