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hamrack
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I need a 26mm socket with a completely flat face to rebuild my mountain bike forks, but the one made for the job is £20 (ouch) and out of stock:
http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/fox-forx-beta-flat-socket-id82128.html
Reckon a grinding wheel or similar would make the edge of a normal (cheap, available) 26mm socket flat?
The nut it needs to take off only has a few mm to grab, and a normal socket has a chamfer that reduces that to just a mm or so - and you apparently just end of rounding it off.