fettler
Senior Retro Guru
XT posts are made of steel with an ally head. It's not painted but blacked with a surface treatment but it's not anodizing.Am sure that would have been anodised
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Just looked at my NOS one and you can actually feel little tiny burrs on the surface like the turning tool was a bit blunt or cutting speed too slow.