Bill
There a quite few stems which will not go round the tight curves of a variety of bars. Brooks made a tool which was made of steel with a notch on the end which slid between the stem pinch bolt (if fitted) and you could lever the jaws of the stem apart.
There isn't a tool # on mine, but I can take a shots of it and send them to you off list so that you could possibly get and engineering shop to make one up. I've lost count the number of times I have used mine...one of the most useful tools in my box!
Regards Derek Athey Honition, Devon UK
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Bill Kloos <billkloos@landuseoregon.com>wrote:
> Team CR:
>
> I am trying to install a used Cinelli 1A oval logo stem on a new bar - an
> "Ambrosio 13 Volte Champione del Mondo." The Velobase picture of the bar is
> here:
>
> http://www.velobase.com/
>
> I can get the stem up to the start of the wider part in the middle of the
> bar, but it is clear to me that I am going to bugger up the bar if I keep
> pressing the stem toward the middle, where it has to go. I have put a
> wooden wedge into the opening on the stem (the kind you use to straighten up
> a door frame), and this has given me bit bigger opening, but it will not be
> enough.
>
> What am I not doing here that should be obvious to me. I really don't want
> to mar the bar, as I will lose sleep. Should I use a hardwood wedge? Should
> I bathe the bar in liquid nitrogen and heat the stem? I actually searched
> the archives and found nothing, so I fear I am missing something really
> basic. But there are not many variables left.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Kloos
> Eugene, Oregon
> "Last refuge of the terminally hip."