Not to say you may not have gotten what you paid for, but it is a physical impossibility to have all nine lugs touching equally.
No, they won't all touch equally, but the elasticity of steel makes significant contact of all lugs practical with a little tweaking. They won't have exactly equal contact, but that's even true of different regions of the same single lug, even on a microscopic scale. Ie. if we were to pretend that steel is perfectly inelastic, then no more than 3 atoms anywhere on any part of the combined lug surfaces could be making contact, even if we only had a single lug somehow.
The church is near, but the roads are icy. The pub is far away, but I will walk carefully.
