Hi,
Nitto Tool-3 is Da Bomb!
http://www.euroasiaimports.com/
Marc St. Martin Livermore, California USA
-----Original Message-----
>From: Derek Athey <devondirect@googlemail.com>
>Sent: May 11, 2010 4:39 AM
>To: Bill Kloos <billkloos@landuseoregon.com>
>Cc: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR] Installing stem on handlebar without buggering the bar?
>
>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."