Greg, any way of getting much-much bigger picture from you? I want to show it to someone, see what the expert's opinion is. Someone I know had done a great deal of research on the subject. In a nutshell the treatment produced a softer core and harder shell. That way the axle was always under internal stress and if it ever broke it would literally explode. On the upside it was handling the load which would otherwise require a substantially bigger axle. This was not for a car, but something bigger