Titanium ball-ended rod (part of ball and socket joint) with hard chrome plating on ball

PART OF:: Examples of protective coatings

Made:: 1981

Titanium ball-ended rod (part of ball and socket joint) with

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Titanium ball-ended rod (part of ball and socket joint) with hard chrome plating on ball. As used in the N.A.S.A. space shuttle on payload carrier swivels, c. 1981

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Category:: Metallurgy

Object Number:: 1984-553/4

type:: rod

credit:: A.T. Poeton (Gloucester Plating) Ltd.

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