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Re: [Fot] Followup to TR7 wheel stud question

To: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Followup to TR7 wheel stud question
From: Robert Lang <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Bill Babcock wrote:

> Cut off the end of the nuts with a angle grinder--it's just a tin cap.

Interestingly, some are not just caps!  I have a set of 7/16-20 lugnuts 
(barrel type) for my American Racing 4-spokes that were closed-ended... we 
tried "popping the cap off" to no avail, so we had to chuck them on the 
lathe and turn them down to expose the threads (so that we could use them 
on the 3" studs we'd installed).

So if you can't knock the cap off easily, next stop is the machine shop.

regards,
rml
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