A distributor opened his racking one spring to pull a long chrome plated rod for an urgent order and found a row of small brown spots running along the underside. The rod had arrived perfect. It had simply spent four months lying directly on a steel rack arm, in a warehouse that sweated every time t
A stockist once rejected an entire delivery of honed tube because his warehouse inspector measured the bore oversize on nearly every length. We sent the mill inspection record, which showed every tube comfortably inside H8. Both sides were confident, and both had numbers. When we compared methods, t
A cylinder builder received a batch of chrome plated rod cut to length and went straight to machining the rod ends for the gland threads and the piston attachment. On the third rod, the chrome at the machined shoulder began to flake and lift, peeling back from the freshly cut steel like paint off a