These are two bolts I turned on the lathe for our FRC robot in March 2023. It was an emergency job: the robot's elevator sheared two of the original bolts, so I made replacements by turning down regular socket head cap screws into shoulder bolts, with knurled heads and threaded ends.

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They've since been pulled out in favor of alloy steel replacements. For the record, these same parts (same type, different instance) failed in subsequent years as well. I have come to hate them.