I was holding my breath while fishing this out as I had pushed it back down the hole to get the plug wire back on. I guess I got lucky.
I have a good picture to upload from my slr later tonight of this stud. You can see in the cell phone picture above what I'm going to point out in the SLR picture that shows it much more clearly. The body of the stud has striations in the same manner as the cardboard core of a roll of paper towels or tp...to me this is an obvious indicator of a tooling flaw during the manufacturing process as they roll out the stock. These striations are the same angle as the break. The tool must have had a bur that was imprinted on the body of the stud top to bottom circling around about 1cm at about 30 degrees... definitely a sign of piss-poor quality control.
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“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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