In a message dated 9/9/2004 8:52:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tsan7759142@comcast.net writes:
<< This elderly gentleman cut my steerer and welded in a length of round stock the same size and ground it off beautifully. >>
Tom: I am not sure what you mean here... Was that a plug, with another section of threaded steerer tube on top? Round stock.. Maybe this was a threadless steerer~ an AHead set style deal? McLean Fonvielle, builder of McLean/Silk Hope frames, did a radical repair to a Mercian of mine years ago. He simply cut off the steerer, attached an accurately cut (!) longer "top" by butt brazing it with silver. Scary but it seemed to work.
Dale
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina