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Default Socket for old shower valve bonnet needed

"bob prohaska" wrote in message
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Jim Wilkins wrote:


I don't have any machine tools except a lathe, so cutting a pair of
accurate wrench flats will be a "file and fit" proposition.


You can mill on a lathe, as long as the cutter in the chuck only
pushes the work on the carriage downward.