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Mirror polishing enhances fatigue resistance

Stainless is a 'terrible' material vs. repetitive/cyclic stress - it easily 'fatigues', especially if the loading goes above ~30,000 psi.

Mirror Polishing reduces the surface irregularities that promote the formation fatigue cracks.
Even better is to have them mechanically mirror-polished, then have them 'electro-polished' ... better for fatigue endurance.

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