Fw: [CR]Help on cutting a steerer tube..OOPS!

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From: "Rick Chasteen" <rchasteen@kc.rr.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Fw: [CR]Help on cutting a steerer tube..OOPS!
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:51:56 -0500


Sorry, folks. I was thinking about threadless steerer tubes, although I guess a pipe cutter would work if you could file the threads clean. Or maybe just use the pipe cutter to scribe a line a saw could follow.

Rick Chasteen, red faced in Kansas City


----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Chasteen
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [CR]Help on cutting a steerer tube



> Why not just use a pipe cutter? The end of the tube is then dead on
> straight and you clean up the ridge that is left with a file and emery
> paper.
>
> Rick Chasteen, Kansas City
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
> To: <witt@visi.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 9:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Help on cutting a steerer tube
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 9/21/01 6:21:21 PM, witt@visi.com writes:
> >
> > << Right now I just plan to run some headset ring on the thing, cut the
> tube
> > with a hack saw, and then use the ring to smooth out the threads as I run
> it
> > off. Sounds too easy, so there must be some detail I've not thought of...
> > >>
> >
> > Then get a half round file and clean up the inside of the steerer. Then I
> get
> > some aluminium oxide cloth and very carefully go around the top of the
> > steerer to ease the sharp edge you will get because you used a new sharp
> 32
> > tooth hack blade. Watch your fingertips! And of course you measured very
> > carefully by installing the head set without the locknut making sure you
> > weren't cutting it too short. And then you measured again.
> > Phil Brown