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Originally Posted by WERK-I
Ducati drove itself nuts trying to find vendors who could satisfy their needs on chromium plated cam followers.
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Actually, Ducati screwed the pooch by subcontracting the hardfacing on the opening and closing cam followers which led to premature flaking of the hardfacing. For the years Ducati was in denial, while smaller shops were making a mint by grinding off the crappy chrome, and inlaying colbalt or stellite hardfacing. To exaserbate the problem, Ducati's cams kept getting more and more aggressive with more drastic drop ramps from max lift points of the cam. This literally beat the snot outta the hard chrome areas of the openers and closers.
All the bad
PR eventually forced Ducati to rectify the flaking chrome issue.