My guess would be that this stud had been improperly hardened. Perhaps it went thru the furnace more than once, and/or it fell off a conveyor, did not get annealed, and then was put in the bin with good studs. > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 15:06:47 -0700 > From: albell@SHAW.CA > Subject: exh stud - drilling out is tough > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > It is as if I have hit some harder steel. |
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