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Typically, I'll face one side, flip it and face the other, then go back and face
the first side again- on these nuts, I took off just a touch more from the "high" side,
since even with close-fit threads, the nut cocked a bit. Doing each side twice in turn
seems to make them pretty close to true.

The tricky part of the deal, though, is that on a grinder, one is a left-hand nut.
You have to make a second spud with appropriate threads to do that one, and either
turn the lathe in reverse or set the tool to cut on the backside, which is what I did.





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