Not that I'd know much about Metalurgy,.......or Metal Fatigue, or machining or Chit,.....from bean dip.
when only 2 - 2 1/2 lugs outta' 9 show a bearing surface, that established with old school "Prussian Blue", and for us younger types ,"Dykem",........the basic mechanism of failure looks obvious.
The lugs give up 1 or 2 at a time,.....when there's only a couple left,
.............things go bad.
Rocket Science ?
NOT
GTC
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