Tool steel or stainless steel 1.4305.

Steel hardened and ground.
Stainless steel ground and kolsterised.

Ball end locating pins are specially designed to ease the locating process. The tendency to jam, caused by the locating hole not being at right angles to the pin or by the pushing force not being parallel to the pin axis, is minimized by the ball-end style (see illustration).

1) Internal thread one side in blind hole
2) Internal thread both sides in blind holes
3) Internal thread both sides in through hole