Steel fork steerer? The steering tube on my '83 Alan Super is aluminum.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, OH, USA
> << Wouldn't you know it, some jerk apparently hammered the wrong size stem
> into the steerer tube?>>
>
> No, that steerer is the largest "hole" made in that era.
>
> Have you used "Kroil"? absolutely great stuff.. but it would logically
> take 3-4 days of applications, soaking, tapping with hard rubber hammer,
> etc.
>
> << The shop owner says a torch, but this qualifies as a special case
> because the stem is aluminum and so is the pitifull frame. >>
>
> The fork steerer, what the stem is really stuck in, is steel... hacksaw
> the frame away from the fork and steerer. Then use heat on the steerer.
> Not enough to melt the stem (doh!) but to loosen all the gunk. Clamp the
> fork crown in a big vise, then put some bars in the stem and start
> twisting and pulling...
>
>
> Dale Brown
> cycles de ORO, Inc.
> 1410 Mill Street
> Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 USA
> 336.274.5959
> http://www.cyclesdeoro.com
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: biankita@comcast.net
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 4:55 PM
> Subject: [CR]Beautiful rare valuable stem stuck in crap bike.
>
> A local bike shop owner wants to gift me a TTT pantographed Colnago stem
> in the perfect 10 cm size that I use. The pantographing seems unusual in
> that it is a shade deeper into the aluminum surface. The stem is stuck in
> one of those crack addict's bikes. This one is an old ALAN that has a
> crack in the headtube, part of the seat lug cracked off on the tightening
> fixture, a crack in the downtube, a bent crank, rusted and corroded Zeus
> brakes, etc. The only things worth saving are the SR headset and the stem.
> Wouldn't you know it, some jerk apparently hammered the wrong size stem
> into the steerer tube? We have had it soaking in every kind of thing for
> two days and we can't even turn it one bit no less get it out. I tried
> sticking a solid metal rod into the fork from underneath and tapping it to
> break the stem loose. Even that won't work. Short of cutting the head tube
> and then cutting the fork in half what might be done. The shop owner says
> a torch, but this qualifies as a special case because the stem is aluminum
> and so is the pitifull frame.
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Fl USA